Glad you got her in the air.

I said I'd never buy another ARF or Lanier, but I've now done both. When Tower was having a close out on Lanier, I picked up a Laser 200 1/4 scale kit. It's still in the box. After crashing my second 4*60, I was hurting for something to fly other than the trainer, and the other planes needed a few days repairs on them, so I bought a Phoenix Fun Star. I hated it. Three flights on three different days and all ended in near disaster. The covering was clear yellow and if I got anywhere near the sunny side of the field, it turned into a yellow glow and I couldn't tell the orentation on it. After the third flight, I completely skinned the covering off and recovered it with some colors I could see, White, Teal, Red, Purple. It has become my main plane now. It is really easy to land. If it wasn't for the prop, you could catch it like a glider it flys so slow. Nice little plane once you can see it.

I've got a couple more about ready to fly now. I built a Great Planes Super Aeromaster bipe. I finished it a year and a half back and haven't got up the nerve to fly it yet. Getting close though. I've also rebuilt my Ruperts dad after a battery going open on me and left the plane doing big lazy circles for it seemed like for ever until it finally lost enough altitued and hit a bush and broke the wing. I ended up with a warped aileron that I have to straighten out prior to it new maiden.

I killed my explorer prior to soloing. My instructor and I managed to hit a fence made from rough cut 2x8s and really messed up the fuselage. I built a stick fuselage and used the Explorer wing and tail. It was a tail dragger. Man what an improvement. I really liked that plane, but one of the guys shot me down and it went into the creek bed behind our field and it was about four months before one of the guys found most of it. In the mean time, I built a clone of it. I had a spare Explorer wing and I built a second fuse to go with it. by now, I was flying with a O.S 52 four stroke. Just after getting this one flying I built a 4*60 and I ended up soloing with it. It only lasted me a couple months and I totaled it out. Shortly after that, I totaled out my clone. That holds the club record for most enging pieces after a crash. I destroyed the O.S 52. The only thing salvagable was the prop nuts and parts of the carb. One of the guys at the field had a 4*60 that someone had started but screwed up the wing on and we did some horse trading and I had it in the air for several months. I screwed up in a good wind oneday and miss judged air speed on a down wind leg and stalled it out and lost it. Then came the phoenix fun star.

This hobby has become an addiction I think.

Don