You're going to maiden this weekend, right? Got the carbon tube, receivers, servo programmer, and other bits so it's time for setup and a few other little details, then covering.

A Happy New Year to you too.

Good to hear you got the wing tube. Sounds like you are very close to covering. I would like to plan on a maiden this weekend but the snow [:'(] and cold [:@] may prevent that.

Well fella's this one is finished. Just need some decent weather now for flying which will probably be April or May before we get that.

Nice job! I hope to get my beauty shots up here soon. I meant to ask, how did you polish that spinner?

it looks awesome.... congratulations... and may you have a safe maiden flight.... would love to see a video of its maiden flight if possible...

Thanks fella's. The spinner came out of the package polished, it is an MPI, they are good spinners and not nearly as costly as some of the others on the market. It will need polishing in time, typically i use Semi-Chrome to polish them.
Certainly will try to get some video of the maiden.
Looking forward to more pictures of your build Don and any others that may be in the works.

Double post. Sorry.

Hello
that Extra looks great.
Very good job !

regards Reiner

Congrats ... That's a beautiful model. What's the final dry weight?

Please report back your maiden flight.

Pedro

Thanks fella's. I will have to check the final weight and follow up this evening.

Gongrats on the completion of your Extra, you did a fantastic job on the entire build.

Bob

Very very nice plane!!! Congratulations!! Hope to see footage of the maiden voyage... Thanks for sharing that build... I've got tell you too... that thing came together very quickly it seems.. bravo on that.

Hi Steve,
Have you ran the engine yet? I was wondering about how it started and if you tried hand starting it. I want to get one of these for my 1/3 scale d6. I don't have a starter, i hand start all of my gas engines.
Planes looks good.

Mike

Thanks again! The best i can tell using a bathroom scale it weighs right at 29 pounds. I need to break down and buy a good digital. The digital scale i have only goes up to 11 pounds.
Mike, no i have started it yet, so will report back to you on how that goes. I am hoping it will hand start without any problems.

No pics tonight. Been gluing canopy in stages over a couple of days. I did add two extra hinges to the rudder this weekend.

Don, how is your 330L coming along?

I finished the wing mounting a couple of nights ago. I was going to use 1 nylon bolt and a peg with a cotter pin in it, but after I finished the first screw hole I decided I may as well use another nylon bolt instead of the peg/cotter pin. I added ply insets for the control horns on the tail surfaces and drilled the control horn holes. I also added ply insets for the stab bolts above and below the stab. I will tap the stab holes per plans, but will use a bolt long enough for me to add a lock nut on the underside. I added two more hinges for the rudder, and bobbed the lower tip of the rudder. The canopy is glued up, but the canopy/fuse gap needs some epoxy/microballoon action. I still need to inset ply for the aileron horns, come up with a tank/electronics tray, route ignition/throttle/choke and then I will start covering and painting. Final colors will be corsair blue, deep red, and white. I think the scheme is a variation of yours. I see it on several different Extras with differing colors.

You fly yours yet?

Nice modifications Don. I am thinking i am still going to change the wing alignment dowels to carbon fiber or aluminum. The humidity is up again and the wood dowels are making very difficult to assemble and disassemble the wings to the fuse. [:'(]

Couldn't hurt.

http://www.graphitestore.com/itemDet...d=34&curPage=2

Thanks for the link. I was sold on that one until i check the shipping. $17 for the rod plus $17 for UPS ground shipping, ouch.....

Didn't see that. It's the first I've found that wasn't an oddball size.

ACP composites also has them, but you don't know shipping until after you order.

I saw that on the ACP web site. Google led me to this site. $9 for rod $10 for shipping. Not bad, got one on order. http://dragonplate.com/ecart/product...ID=4514&cID=39
Thanks for your help!

Hi guys, does anyone have a copy of the instruction manual for this planeas I didnt receive one with mine. I have this item: http://www.nitroplanes.com/90a209r-v2.html

Also, has anyone changed the servos around so they can be mounted inside the elevator rather than to the side of the fuselage? If so, how was this done.

Thanks guys,
Hadleigh.

Try here:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/forumid_75/tt.htm

Pretty sure we don't have the instructions that you're after.