Hi Mike, thanks for the answers. It's a funny thing here, most people don't park their cars in the garage. (like me) but either have it filled with other stuff, BBQ, bikes, outdoor stuff etc. or they've turned them into rooms as in playrooms, gamerooms . . . large living rooms. Few really use them for cars. My wife would like to park our 64 1/2 Mustang in there as she seldom drives it. But I'm not too keen on that, what with all the balsa dust I generate which of course would coat her baby . . . she'd go nuts, it'd start a war over in what to her is a dubious, money wasting hobby of mine. I just know she'd demand I move the car out every time I sanded something (which is all the time) and go 'ballistic' everytime I got any dust on it. That might lead me to say something like: "Why did I buy you that thing anyway? You never drive it and I'm the one who washes it all the time anyway" Then she'd say . . . and we'd be off. Why DID I buy it for her????? Guess it was her birthday as I recall.

I hope you printed out all of Ray's "tips" on your plane from his site so you can go over them in hand while looking at the plans etc. Yeah as Iv'e said elseware, his planes are not for beginner types and the Inst. are 'Old-School' single spaced typewritten tomes, lacking drawings or pix. that leads to much 'reading-between-the-lines' and head scratching. Well that was the norm then, how it was done in the 'old' days. From what I see the kits that were first published in the mags. were even worse, they had a limit as to how many words they could use, ie: Tell how to build your plane for us using 2K words or less, that's all the space were giving you to do it in. That's why on these 'classic' kits the Inst. are so, lets say 'concise' to be kind. What did one expect for free?

Just like anyother 'Tech' writing, the author is so familiar with the subject, he understands what HE means, it's all so simple to him. His Inst. make perfect sense . . . to HIM. He doesn't see any spaces between the lines, nothing to miss-understand On my kit (the 'Viking') in talking about building the wing it seems the norm step by step deal until I got to the point where is says "now block up the root rib TE 1/4" and rib W-15 1/8". . . I thought all we're talking about so far is the root section, but rib W-15 is the tip rib, the first mention of the tip section in the Inst. till this point . . . well wait, there was mention of bending music wire to 7.5 deg. for the poly break in step 10 but that was all. Not the usual way Inst. go with building the root sections than move on to the Inst. on the tip sections. These Inst. just assume for you to automaticly do them. This is not the usual, don't do anything untill told to "or you'll be sorry later" way of doing things I was used to. Big suprise! The good thing is I caught it before starting the wing, now I see they want you to build it in one operation. Yikes!!!!, I got to get the kids to school, we're going to be late!
Rick K