I originally learned to fly back in the 80's. I remember the first time I saw a pattern ship fly. The whole fast, smooth, "gear up and on the pipe" thing really grabbed me...but I never did get one built before leaving the hobby in about 1990.
When I got involved again about 5 years ago I started flying mostly electrics, eventually gravitating toward high performance sailplanes and hotliners. Last summer our club got a new field. It's an abandoned airport out in the country with a nice paved runway and no noise problems. Well, it didn't take long and I was dragging out my old glow planes from back in the day, which lead inevitably to this...my first real pattern ship.
I really don't care that much for the chubby, fixed gear, four stroke 2M pattern planes of today - which is why I was so pleased to find this forum.
Anyway, thanks to one of our members here on the site I have acquired a really nice kit that fulfills all my requirements. I haven't seen a lot of these around so i thought I'd post a thread.