I'm sure all of you that own sports cars like the Vette, or a Porsche, Miata etc. or the like will tell us all of the equipment you can carry in your vehicle, but sometimes you want or need to carry passengers too. As for vans, they are fine if you only fly sailplanes or electrics. But if you need to haul a big power plane as a tug, or have a huge sailplane, a truck with a topper is the better way to go IMHO.
It's important to have all of the smelly and flammable stuff in a separate area from the passenger compartment. This specifically means the gas can or nitro fuel for a glow engine. When I flew a lot of power years ago, I had two different occasions where a gel cell battery shorted out, and the glow plug igniter shorted out. Fortunately it's a fairly short drive home so they only got hot enough to melt things, not catch fire. They were both in my flight box within inches of the fuel can. I was lucky they hadn't heated any further or I could have lost my entire vehicle. I was using a van at the time and the smell of the melting plastic stayed in the cab for what seemed like weeks. George Voss RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
