With 12 flights now, I can honestly say, I no longer have any mis-givings about the shape of the fuselage. It does not appear to have any bad habits, whether it be at cruise, very slow, in heavy cross-wind approaches, or even slow knife edge. It will crab on a cross wind landing just like any other pattern plane and no surprises.

I have received a number of inquiries about the plans. Sorry, this version will not be posted for free download, but the cost will be resonable...not here to make a living, just want some fuel money for my work. At this point, I have sheet #1 finished, showing the fuse and all formers. It has been plotted/printed and I am going over it for mistakes. I am currently working a second sheet that will have the wing and stab layout, along with all of the foam templates for cutting the foam cores. I am trying to keep it to just two sheets to keep the cost of printing down. Once these are done, I will also take the CAD files for the foam templates and send them out for quote from a foam cutting service. I understand that many of you would prefer to be able to buy the cores and the plans and get at it. Obviously, I cannot supply that many cores cutting them by hand, besides, the quality will be much better if cnc cut.

I also have kept notes from the build and that will be included as a reference to go along with the plans.

Sorry, it is taking so long to finalize the drawings, but I want them to be right....and that just takes time. For any interested in what they will look like, the version 2 plans are available to download on Joe's Model Plans site. Below are images of sheets 1-3 from that set of plans.


Thanks again for your patience..

-Mark

P.S. Thank you Mike Hester for inspiration as well.