Hi John,

As you can see we are all still here. But probably have just been busy with one thing or another. For my I'm knee deep in Monokote and just about finished with the bottom part of my wing. Fuselage and tail feathers are done and I'm happy with the way the whole thing is coming out. I'm using an FTE T-500 on mine and it runs great. Can hardly wait till I get this Monkote work done so I can do the final assembly work. Have the next three days off so I'm be pretty darn close to finishing everything by Tuesday night. Will post pictures when I have my bird done. For brakes I probably went a little overboard and purchased the Compact Omnibrake system for my ship. Have a separate air system planned to operate those. Have some unique detail work that I'm going to do to make this thing look even better then what it is.

You'll love the assembly work of putting yours together. Bruce makes a wonderful kit and the manual is very well done and logical in its assembly. I'd highly recommend that you go through it a couple of times and then while putting your bird together, have it sit right next to your building board and use the check boxes as you go. There are a few little details he gives which really help out and will keep you out of trouble. Bruce stated that he wanted the Reaction 54 to be his best kit yet and speaking from experience of building his Flying King, then the Super Flying King and now this kit, I'd have to say that he hit his mark dead on. After building from his kits it is really hard for me to build from anyone else.

Best of luck to you and enjoy the build. I'm sure you will.


Cheers,