Topic: Emergency room for experience (update)

[ofreen]

I flew control line planes back in the 50s/60s.  Those little tiny motors were .049 cu inch displacement. 

You may remember this model.  The Swordsman was everywhere back in those days.  This one is close to 50 years old and I've flown it as recently as 3 or 4 years ago.  It has been patched up a few times.  The mill is a Cox Babe Bee.  I just looked it up and was sad to find they are no longer in production.  They are easy to find tho.

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

You boys using a little glow fuel in yer bike tanks too? 

[FuZZie]

A little glow is always good! 

[Chief]

Glad to see you are on the road to recovery brother.  I have been where you are Too Tired.  Spent a week in the hospital with my double bypass 3 years ago.  Looks like yamahawk and I share the pretty marks of cardiac brotherhood.

[demon78]

Hey Ofreen looks good
Bill the demon.

[TwoTired]

You may remember this model.  The Swordsman was everywhere back in those days.  This one is close to 50 years old and I've flown it as recently as 3 or 4 years ago.  It has been patched up a few times.  The mill is a Cox Babe Bee.  I just looked it up and was sad to find they are no longer in production.  They are easy to find tho.

Ha!  I still have a swordsman. I got it for my wife to build back in 1975.  Our's is yellow.  I brought it to AZ last trip.  We have a Cox Black widow on it.  Same as a baby bee except it has dual cylinder ports for and extra 1000 RPM and a larger fuel tank on it.

I haven't flown control line in years.  I wonder if I'd get dizzy if I flew them again.  I had kinda become immune back in the day.  The wife would get too dizzy and crash, even after she could actually fly it okay.  The small ones (.049) use 30 Ft lines.  The 0.35 sized one used 60 Ft lines.

Cheers,

[ofreen]

The 0.35 sized one used 60 Ft lines.

I built another control line plane you no doubt are familiar with, the Nobler. It had a McCoy redhead 35 on it.

[BobbyR]

Lloyd, if you could fly that control line plane without getting dizzy you could have qualified to become a fighter or gunship pilot.   They would spin you around in a chair and then look at your eyes to see your physical reaction. Not high tech, but effective.

[TwoTired]

I built another control line plane you no doubt are familiar with, the Nobler. It had a McCoy redhead 35 on it.

The Nobler was/is a beautiful ship.  Drooled over that one for sure.  I inherited two wrecks, when in Memphis during my Navy training.  A Ringmaster and a Nobler.  Ringmaster had smashed wings, and the Nobler had a smashed fuselage.  So of course, I grafted the Nobler wings onto the Ringmaster fuse.  I flew the heck out of that hybrid plane.

I had McCoy red heads, too.   Several.  When I started doing combat with them, I also started hot rodding the McCoys, by upping their compression and making the ports larger.  They didn't last as long, but they screamed in the combat circle.  Replacement parts were easy and cheap to get.  But, I somehow got a hold of a Johnson, and that was a far superior and long lasting motor compared to the McCoy.  Wasn't cheap, though IIRC.  That was in 1968!

Cheers,

[TwoTired]

Lloyd, if you could fly that control line plane without getting dizzy you could have qualified to become a fighter or gunship pilot.   They would spin you around in a chair and then look at your eyes to see your physical reaction. Not high tech, but effective.

Yeah your eyes would jerk back and forth in response to inner ear fluid inertia moving across the cilia.   
I would never been accepted for military pilot training, because of my eyes.  Near sighted from age 8.  I became a civilian pilot later in life, though.  With better eyes, I could have survived combat, I like to think.

I truth, fighter pilots NEED excellent far vision, to spot threats from as far away as possible.  I recall an article about a journalist's ride in a P51 piloted by Bob Love, a Korean war ace.  The journalist was astonished with Bob's situational awareness when he casually announced another plane in the sky and stating just what model and make it was and where it was headed.  The journalist couldn't even see it until Bob pointed it out.  It was a mere spec far off in the sky, and the journalist could barely make out that it had wings on it.  His comment was "fighter pilot eyes".

All my reading of dogfight pilot accounts stipulated that survival was mostly a matter of seeing the other guy first.  Skill and strategy certainly helped after that, though.

Cheers,

[Alan F.]

I just stumbled upon this thread and will wish you all the best - plus less stress.
Last week was a school vacation and I was somehow home having lunch with my daughter, the tv was on playing some old episode of Supernatural when I spotted this:



And I thought to myself I should find some time to poke around on the forums some. 

[Gene]

I love how this turned into an airplane thread.

[TwoTired]

Airplanes are part of my therapy regimen.  And, the R/C variety mostly meets my <10 lbs weight lift limit restriction.

Must keep the mind active, at least.  The new medications sap my energy.

Surprisingly, I got permission to mow my yard from the Heart doctor.  That wore me out.   Grass was getting pretty tall.  Lot's of catch bag dumping.  Good thing I rescued a self propelled mower from the scrapers a couple years ago.  It just needed new drive wheels as the old ones had all the rubber worn off them nearly down to the hubs.  The wife insisted on helping.  First time she ever did any mowing.  I think she needs more "practice". 

Cheers,

[HondaMan]

I built another control line plane you no doubt are familiar with, the Nobler. It had a McCoy redhead 35 on it.

The Nobler was/is a beautiful ship.  Drooled over that one for sure.  I inherited two wrecks, when in Memphis during my Navy training.  A Ringmaster and a Nobler.  Ringmaster had smashed wings, and the Nobler had a smashed fuselage.  So of course, I grafted the Nobler wings onto the Ringmaster fuse.  I flew the heck out of that hybrid plane.

I had McCoy red heads, too.   Several.  When I started doing combat with them, I also started hot rodding the McCoys, by upping their compression and making the ports larger.  They didn't last as long, but they screamed in the combat circle.  Replacement parts were easy and cheap to get.  But, I somehow got a hold of a Johnson, and that was a far superior and long lasting motor compared to the McCoy.  Wasn't cheap, though IIRC.  That was in 1968!

Cheers,

A Johnson! My first Gilbert flyer had a Johnson engine in it!
Boy, did I ever wreck THAT one on its maiden flight... 

[spotty]

Well I can't join in on the R/C stuff ( I was more of a train nerd when I was a kid)
I can however join in on the emergency room theme, had a bad Thursday.......
Half a dozen really bad attacks of diahorrea at work was followed by a bout of collapsing and projectile vomiting.
Off to hospital with all of that and chest and head pain, what fun.
A bit shot of lovely morphine and three hours sleep later they let me out
I came home and slept for another 20 hours straight. Dunno what was wrong but I still feel like #$%* and the missus now has the vomiting thing going on
The wedding we're going to tomorrow could be interesting...... Can't not go cos I'm the DJ and also in charge of beer consumption

[dave500]

what about slot cars?as a kid we had a place you could pay to use their car or bring your own,its was like 8 lanes wide.

[jlh3rd]

Slot cars, yep. I had a 1/24 scale cox, ford GT 40. What a blast. There was a huge track , at least 8 lanes, and that gt was fast , for the day, out of the box....fun times...

[juntjoo]

glad you're still with us. not an expert on heart attack recovery but I'd automatically think exercise, the planned kind. Maybe ride a bicycle more often than your motorcycle. I'm only 41 currently, with no insurance nor plans of visiting the hospital but I can feel and and pains popping up in random places, sometimes in concerning locations so I'm a stretcher/exerciser by necessity. I job a couple times a week and practice martial arts with my kicking bag and cook most my own food. That's my health insurance. like changing the oil on your bike. Take good care buddy.

[BobbyR]

Yeah, I did that when i was a kid. My old man used to rewind the motors, balance the armatures and epoxy the windings  so they would not blow up. Everyone had a secret winding.

Later on they opened a track close by my home. I took my son to it every Friday.  He made some friends and I got to shoot the crap with the other fathers. Good times.

[TwoTired]

glad you're still with us. not an expert on heart attack recovery but I'd automatically think exercise, the planned kind. Maybe ride a bicycle more often than your motorcycle.

My doctors taught me this recently, that although the heart is a muscle, it is genetically different than the other muscles of the body.  Exercise breaks down most muscle tissue, to be rebuilt by the body later, and then over reacting to add extra muscle cells.  Your muscles get bigger and stronger with repeat exercise.  Heart muscle damaged by blood starvation is different.  Arterial blood flow blockage does cause heart muscle cells to die off.  But, the replacement cells are not the same type of cell, rather it is scar tissue, that behaves like tough rubber.  Good that it still seals off the heart pumping chambers so they don't leak.  Bad that the new cells don't provide any retraction effort to pump blood through those chambers.  Your heart is permanently weaker, and you can't get it back with exercise.  The recovery regimen is to minimize the scar tissue by NOT making the heart work very hard.  This is why the 10 Lb lift limitation, with 20 minute walks 3-4 times a week.  And, the drugs to lower blood pressure and limit its pumping exertion.   The walks don't help the heart during the recovery, it is included for the rest of the body to keep other muscles from the severe atrophy of inactivity.  It only takes three days of disuse for the rest of the body's muscles to begin atrophy.  Normally, if you are breathing hard from exertion, the heart will correspondingly pump harder.  NOT a good thing during heart attack recovery.

So, if you believe you may be having a heart attack (the heart sends pain signals to areas nearby; arm, jaw, chest), do get it attended to as quickly as possible.  More exercise won't help, just deepen the damage, and the longer you have heart blood supply issues, the more permanent damage your heart will suffer.  And those effects will last until you die.

Cheers,

[juntjoo]

good to know. thanks. sounds like planned obsolescence

[TwoTired]

good to know. thanks. sounds like planned obsolescence

Yes, if you wish to believe in an actual plan, rather than results which are born of chaos, or chaotic behavior.

Cheers,

[TwoTired]

what about slot cars?as a kid we had a place you could pay to use their car or bring your own,its was like 8 lanes wide.

Winter '67 -'68  Was my slot car period.   Too cold to fly airplanes and no skis for them.  There was a track rental place in Elgin IL I went to.  They had about 5 very nice track layouts 6 and 8 lanes.  I did the rewind thing and made my own car frames, too.  I built better than I drove.  Kept launching cars 25 ft or more off the track turns.  Did more repair than racing.  Kept me busy and interested, though. 

Cheers,

[Yamahawk]

I had slot cars, too. But the Most Fun was slot car Drag Racing... we had a local track here in Toledo, and back in the early 2000's I got quite good at building drag cars from Revell model kits, and others. I have a friend who got me into it, he's an old MC drag racer, used to build Banzai Racing's Drag Bikes and midget cars with Suzuki GSXR1100 engines... anyway, we would build motorcycle drag race slot bikes, and race them too. It was a blast! I cam in 2nd place in the 2004 Glass City Slot Car Drags, missed winning by .0001 second with a Shirley 'ChaCha' Muldowney pink dragster.... Rick still builds the bikes, and sells them on eBay or somewhere, and gets several hundred dollars for each one.
Charlie

[TwoTired]

Anybody else on high dose blood thinners?  A little scratch or nick and I now bleed for an hour.

Anyway if so, you should have treated compress bandages on hand, ...just in case.   I found some at REI called  "Quick Clot".  Expensive but better than bleeding out.  This is probably something for all to carry on MC trips, come to think of it.

Also, found at Walmart, a box labeled "Stops-Bleeding".  This is a powder you put on the wound before a compress bandage.  But, it wasn't in the pharmacy dept, rather it was in the camping section.  The pharmacy attendants didn't have a clue what I was asking about...
WalMart is an unreliable place to seek out competency, imo.   Most informative and knowledgeable response was the direction to where the cash register is.

Doc also told me to look for Israeli bandages.  But, I haven't found those yet.  It seems few in this nation are prepared for any type of emergency beyond possession of a cell phone.

And, before you ask,  I do have medical emergency pack(s), currently stored 700 miles away, ...where I really should be about now.

Cheers,