For those of you that have interest in this plane, I'm gonna run a build thread. Mr. Matt, when you get a chance could you pm me your phone number, I'd like to talk to you in depth about your hinging techniques as I want to use them to the extent that they can be used on this airplane.

In the mean time, I've got about 6 hours labor into what you'll see below. I'm almost to the stage on one wing to cut out the flaps and ailerons.

The foam cores come precut from the foam cutter for servos, spars, and retract wheel area. The guys at RPM have really done a good job taking a great flying airplane and making improvements.

I have no official affiliation with the guys at RPM other than great friends and beer drinking buddies so you'll get the straight dope from me on this jet if you have any questions.

First thing I did was line the spars up with the spar receiver on my "flat" table. I had capped the spars in 3/16" ply and then boxed all that with 1/32 ply. This gives a great adhesion to the foam core. Also lined up the spars into the foam such that the landing gear plate will allow all my "hard" landings to be taken by the spar. What an awesome design. I love it.

On my first isobar some of the absorption of landings had been tranferred to the wing skin on top of the wing and cracked my paint. I put a good layer of carbon fiber and west systems in this area to hopefully prevent that in this jet.