After several delays and some serious slacking on my part I finally have my BMV.3 ready to fly!! Barring any unforeseen circumstances the m=aiden flight is scheduled for this Saturday at the Weak Signals contest. Hopefully everything will go well and I can report back on a very successful maiden flight (fingers, toes, and eyes crossed). I followed this thread closely and took as much information of value from it as I could.

I would like to thank everyone that helped me along the way, with a special thank you to Mark Atwood for being my guardian angel throughout the entire build, Arch Stafford for his set up advice and moral support from half a mile away, Mike Hester for answering Mark;'s questions in the middle of the evening during Sunday build sessions, and Dean Funk for printing graphics and making an awesome canopy spray mask for me. Hopefully i didn't forget anyone.

Here are the pictures of the just about finish product.

YS 160 DZ with short pipe
JR and Airtronics Digitals throughout
JR 2100 Synthesized receiver
JR 9303 for guidance