Guys... I got started in this hobby back in 1998 I built a Tower Trainer and quickly fell in love with planes and flying... one of the first planes I started to look around at and ultimately caught my attention was the C-130. I immediately started searching everywhere for more information on kits, plans, details about building this plane. Very quickly I came across Joe Grable (sp?) down in florida who scaled up the plans he bought from Palmer. So in 1999 I ordered my set of Plans for this beautiful bird. And so those plans have sat for 5 years now awaiting some motivation to break them out and start the process of building this incredible plane. In that time i have built a few other intermediate planes and now am thinking about the next project to throw on the board. The reason I am telling you this is that i have spent the past several days reading through this forum, and I gotta say this is the exact reason I love this hobby. You guys are awesome! To share the information you have, the share your stories of flying this plane and in general to create excitement about this plane is absolutely admirable. I have contemplated ordering the short kit from precision kit cutters or ordering the wood and doing it myself or perhaps going the fiberglass route. Clearly from this forum you guys have covered this spectrum of these options and I feel much more confident that I can come back to this group for help when I get started. I don't have a timeframe in mind for this bird to get started except to say that sooner is now more necessary than later, but I do have to say you have inspired me to pull those plans out and start considering what lies ahead. Additionally I would like to thank you all for sharing so much of the details and pictures to help make this a much easier road to travel. Jim and Randy and others you have some beautiful planes and they look great. Keep up the great work and thanks again for making this so much fun!

Ken