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As it seems a little slow, I thought I would post picture of 11 new all composite R-200 wings set for NCPL racing in 2008. They were built for Norlin, Haas, Spatt and Brockman. Also Eldridge, Elert and Luce will be flying R-200 this year.
Dave you had better get those Seekers polished up and ready to go so you don’t end up in second like the last 4 years.
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Randy,
That is an impressive sight. A ton of work, and I'm sure a lot of happy customers to be.
Dave N,
Are you making tails from the molds we produced? If so, how are those tails working out? I need to get a set of females made from the males for my use. I was waiting on a report before trying to make molds for myself and others.
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As Delbert would say, "I'm ready for Freddy".
Shop has been active the past couple weeks and planes are coming along nicely, I'll be ready, and A.J. has a couple started also.
Pulled another Tail out of the molds this morning, by far the best one yet at 2.1oz and great hinges using .010 fiberglass sheeet like I use to use in my wings. Works very nice.
One last thing, I picked up the "gladiator" storage rack system at Lowes as seen in the first two pictures which I mounted to the wall this morning. This is a nice setup for holding planes by their tails. I little spendy, but not bad ($10 for the 48" rack, and about $6 for each double pronged tail holder) So basically about $50 to hold 5-6 racing planes.
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Here is what I refer to as the "West Wing".
You can see I've been busy out there the last few days, nothing special just a 750 square foot garage with heat, air conditioning, and satelite TV
I refer to it as an extension of the house, I do spend a bit of time out there, so I might as well be comfortable. I've resisted the urge to put a Refrigerator out there, as I'd drink little green bottles all day and get nothing done!
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I moved to Milwaukee in January, and then back to Minnesota in October. Thankfully, this is the same house/workshop in Minnesota that I had before I moved to Milwaukee (couldn't sell it in the bad housing market this year). Other than maintaining two households most of the year, things worked out pretty good, although I missed a few races I would have liked to have attended.
You should have seen the workshop in mid October, it was sickly clean. Its amazing how quickly you can mess things up trying to build 5 planes at the same time.
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