Happy New Year as well!

Well, it's mighty windy and cold today so my first flight of the year will have to wait until next weekend. Spent some more time with the landing gear on this almost completed kit build. I bent up some support braces and drilled the blocks already under the wings for anchor points. Both wheel axles are now about 5/8" in front of the leading edge rather than behind. The wheel pants aren't mounted quite the same way on both landing gear legs so one sits about 1/4" ahead of the other, but the axles are in-line. This has been quite a struggle but the plans helped a lot to give me some reference dimensions as the parts and assemblies were out of position. Since the landing gear wire has to thread up through the wheel pants the way this one was built I made the brace a clamp on assembly. I'm using small steel cable clamps to secure it the gear wire. I'll have to test it to see if it will hold up.

I have verified that at 2 degrees positive incidence at the wing the stabilizer is 0 degrees and the motor shaft is 0 degrees (pretty close anyway). I used a lazer level to check the alignmemt of the end of the motor shaft, centerline of the firewall and vertical stabilizer and that is in good shape as well. The next step will be to figure out the aileron and flap servo mounting and connection as well as the rest of the radio gear. Fuel tank is still not installed either.

There is a club meeting tonight that I hope to attend and maybe get some ideas.

Stay warm!

Jaybird.