Other Interests, Idea’s & Thoughts

Read about Dave’s interests beyond RC and aviation, including history, philosophy, economics, transportation, campers and personal commentary.

C’etait un Rendezvous

(Chrome users may have to reload page to get embedded video’s to show) The greatest viral street racing video ever produced: C’etait un Rendezvous 5:30am, August, 1976, Paris….. To avoid copyright infringement, I merely list a link below where I have...

President to Use Children as Backdrop to Gun Control

Posted in my Facebook feed in response to using children from Sandy Hook to legitimize extra constitutional executive order anouncements today. “Are we to be surprised? A prefix image to warm our hearts to action without results. Smaller magazines wouldn’t...

Ford C-Max Energi Part 5

Clearly the electric powered functionality of this car is a most appealing gizmo factor for me. I like driving it in pure EV mode whenever possible. It has 3 modes, EV Now, EV-Later and Auto. We made a short drive to our regular Sunday morning breakfast stop from...

Ford C-Max Energi Part 4

On Monday January 7 of this last week, we put our first fill-up in the car. The odometer was reading 574 miles, subtract the 59 miles we started with (presumably on a full tank at the dealer) and that’s 515 miles on 12.45 gallons of fuel. We averaged 41.36mpg....