Hey PlaneBuilder66,

It is in fact the Hostetler Skybolt. Did you get the kit cut? I gave kit cutters some thought, but they will only cut to the origial specs and I wanted to make some mods in the construction.

I'm making some departures from the std building materials. It has a lot of heavy sheeting. As I build I have been substituting things like 3/8" sheet with built up components to save on weight and add some rigidity to the model. Anywhere I can make it lighter I am. I am shooting for a target "optimistic" flying weight of 18 lbs.

I think I can do it and if so, it should scoot with a ZDZ 80.

No pics yet, my wife decided to see if the camera was bouce-proof. As soon as I can get that corrected I plan on starting up a history of the build online.

The build has been slow though. At the same time I've been finishing up a SU-26 toy (50"ws, .60 ASP) and started to design/draw up plans for a MQ-9 Reaper UAV. I'm gonna venture into amateur UAV land and outfit it with a GPS enabled camera so I can play around with my captured imagery in my GIS software at work.

I'll stay in touch as my progress, progresses.