Dear Colleges, Just a word on antenas on aluminum finishes:

For all of you who use the great FLITE-METAL product finishes, or build your airplanes with a fairly good amount of aluminum covering, I would like to share my advise based on my experience of building and successfully flying my all aluminum airplanes, by the way, if proper procedures are taken during the radio set up, you will have just as good reception as the non metalic finishes.

Keep in mind that an aluminum airframe can be either your best friend, or your wost enemy. Fortunately radios are very reliable for this type of contruction. I have lost metal airplanes due to my fingers, but not for lost radio signal. Aluminum airframes are a great shield that helps the reception. I make sure to ground the wings to the fuse to avoid disimilar static loads. In addition When I route the antena outside the fuse, I make sure to have at least 1 inch diameter of nonconductive material around the cable, It might not look as good, but you will ensure optimun reception. I have not tried wip antenas yet....

I hope this serves as an encouragement to modelers who build and cover those beautiful airplanes with either FLITE-METAL or any other type of metalic finish