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Old 01-17-2002 | 02:48 AM
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Default 1st. Scratch Project-Lazy Ace

Rodney, I wish I had made a mistake, but I didn't. I was talking about my 76" Lazy Ace. I made some mods to the plane, fairing the nose to a 4" spinner, adding a dorsal fin and wheel pants. I covered it with fabric, and painted it with Sig dope. One of the mistakes I made was in spraying white dope over white fabric. It never looks like the paint is covering, so I kept on spraying and spraying. It looks good, but I added a pound, just in the paint. I also was careless in monitoring the weight of the tail while building, consequently, after it was covered, I needed to add a pound of lead to the nose to balance. Hence the almost fifteen pounds it ended up being. If you have access to back issues of RC Report, Bill Skipper printed two pictures of it in his column in the May 1997 issue.