Hi Steve

I wasn't sure what the cowl was made with so I just guessed and used epoxy
finishing resin and it worked OK.

Hi Bruce

I also had a bad experience with wheel pants. I fly off a paved runway but on a
deadstick landing with my Venus had to land in the grass just in front of the runway
and it flipped over hitting the top of the vertical rudder hard and cracked the fuselage.
If I flew off grass all the time I might just take the pants off the Matrix and forget about
them altogether. I did enlarge the openings and used larger wheels but I don't know if
that would help in the grass around our flying field.

If the weather holds out I hope to get in some serious practice this weekend as next weekend
I'm going to let the Matrix play with the older kids. I'm flying it in the spring pattern contest in
Waco Texas at the HOT MACS field. Hope I remember how to do this , it'll be my first contest
since 1995.

tommy s