Hay ohnoucdat,
Nice comments...thanks. Your right, I doubt that nitro planes will ever send me my parts...but as crazy as this may seem to you...at times it makes me feel a little better. Just to keep you up on whats on my plate...I always have a model on the building board. Either an ARF I'm modifying, or a kit I'm assembling...No matter what is going on in my life...I always have a model in the process of gaining its flight worthyness. Building models settles my soul, and later...a blast to fly. I fly weekly, and I also take part in all the club fun flys and scale meets. I usually fly once a week...but sometimes twice at our flying field at Pu'unana. It is an old WWII Marine Corsair reventment and taxi area...and has a lot of history. The local drag strip uses the runway for its races...and its at sea level, with built in trade winds, most all the time.

I built two models in the past three months. The fist was a one-on racer for our club pylon racing. The model is a World Models (a good company) Corsair II, with a Pro .40, and strictly built by the instruction manual. No mods allowed for your club racing and it is not only a simple model to put together, but surprisingly a solid flying model. It will be fun with ten or so guys building these and our first race is this coming Saturday.

My last model was a three engine ugly stick, a twin ugly stick modified to three engines. I did a short thread on the build in the twin engine section and it was a modified old Cedar Hobbies twin ugly stick. Its powered by three MECOA .32's (great little engines), has a 65" wing span and is a super flyer. It also makes some great good bit of racket when all three engines are full throttle and flew right off the board with no flight issues. Its very fast, and on 9x6 props one of the fastest piston models in our club. I now power it with 10x4, not only to slow it down a bit...but give it some real pull in the vertical. It goes up like a home sick rocket...yet with flaperons...will land nice and sweet. All ugly sticks fly good, but this is a really good one, even better then my ugly stick bi-plane.

Next on the table is a 120 size F6F...scale wing, all three gear retractable and my first gas engine...a 26 RGCF, with a 70"+ wing span. Its a China made model...not purchased through nitro planes, bought for a great price several years ago.

May the flies of 1000 camels infest nitro planes private parts... : )

Soft Landings Always,
Bobby of Maui