Got several excellent flights in this morning...overcast but perfectly calm,(after 4 days of rain). Aerobat with the SK 50 performed flawlessly as usual.

Got home and started tinkering with the US 60 again. Here's a few from last night's efforts...

After reading about the landing gear plate and it's tendancy to fail, I opted for nylon bolts rather than the steel ones included in the kit. I also replaced the screws included for the engine mount with hex heads. I find them much easier to torque down than the philips screw styles.

You'll notice the lead weight on the aft fuselage. This is about a 6oz. slug. Balancing is gonna be a wild ride, I can tell.

I plan on adding the glass cloth over the gear plate and adding another ply plate behind the existing wing mount bulkhead. At the same time, I'll add the hardwood mounts for the hatch I cut out. I'm going to enlarge the dowel holes and upgrade to 3/8" so redrilling the bulkhead will also be required. By going larger, I will overcome the offset created by flipping over the left duplicate wing panel to create a right one. I can't find brass tubing large enough to cover a 3/8" dowel so I'll place shrink tubing over them and cross my fingers.

I'll post whatever I get accomplished today tomorow evening..

Thanks for looking!

PointMagu

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