Thanks for the welcomes and advice!

Delta3 - Unfortunately thats my folks address, I live in England so the 18th of the Royal Troon will have to wait! But well spotted!! I see your from Toowoomba, I had a long term pen friend from there!! Small world!

As for the plane I took Colins advice. I now have all the bits of balsa into one end and luckily there has been a patch there already (electrical tape!) so I am going to take the balsa out of there.

As for the girl friend advice its all good, she knows how much I love it and knows why we go to work each day (well.....this is at this moment in time anyway!)

Thanks again

Rob