I had my eye on that P47 too, so I wouldn't mind seeing some pics too. I wasn't ready to consider a low wing so I opted for the Cessna. But the videos look cool.

I feel like I've turned a bit of a corner, or made it over a hump anyway. All I have left to do is connect the aileron and rudder linkages and put in the electronics (oh, and the alieron servo still too). But not one thing (aside from the cowl) fit. And I'm a little dissappointed with only one part---the tail. Said another way, I guess I feel pretty good about how it is coming out. As far as the tail goes, I glued it up Friday night late and I guess I was tired at that point. It's a little bit leaning towards one side. I think it will fly fine, but it nags me. I tried to tape it straight after the expoxy, but the plastic mount in the fuselage over-powered the tape I guess. The thing that bothers me is I had shimmed the horizontal stabilizer an hour earlier, so you figure I would have realized the vertical needed it too. And it is cocked in the same direction as the horizontal, so the whole tail must actually have been twisted. Oh well, not a deal breaker, but I think I am going to try to separate the bond with the fuselage, and re-glue it with a shim. I'm a perfectionist.

Well, the wheels and pants are on. I had to shave all the pants to get them to not bind on the wheels. The rear wheels are a nice foam. Very light yet solid. The front wheel is rubber and it is not even close to round. I may take it bacl off and try to true it up. But that can wait. Incidentally, the only part that has been missing so far is a piece of plastic that is to be glued over the front gear main against the wheel pant. There is no screw on the other side to hold the assembly from sliding back off the axle, so the plastic will hold the main against the pant, and the whole wheel assembly on the axle. I used a piec of white tape for now, but I'll have to give that some attention before I try to land on it. Oh, I just realized, I will have plenty of scrap white plastic when i cut out the window openings.

I'm almost as far as I can go without a battery and prop. I actually skipped the motor mount as well. You were supposed to mount that and the prop adapter before putting the cowl on. But my motor is set-up for a front of the firewall mount, while the kit calls for a rear of the firewall mount. I need to slide the shaft through the motor, but I don't have the right allen wrench to loosen the set-screw. Off to home depot this morning. It's going to be a long shot because the screw is something smaller than 1.5mm, which seems to be a pretty specialized size. I did see some .05" wrenches for sale on one of the hobby sites so I guess that might be the ticket. But I'll carry the motor over to HD this morning and see if I can find a fit.

Here's a few teaser pics (more for me because I like to look at it!!!).

Oh, I meant to ask where you fly down there. I'm going to try to come down to see my parents in May and I would like to try to get my father back into the hobby. I think he has taken my mom a few times up to Ocala, but that isn't very close (in relative terms anyway). I've tried a couple times to put him in a ready to fly, but he always sent them back. I may just have to carry an Easystar down there in May and leave it with him.

Keep us posted on the P47.