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Hi Gary
give me an email [email protected] we can have coffee at patty cakes some morning
on the weekend before you take off to warmer places -great to here from you -hows that tiger 60 going?

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Don, coffee sounds great. The tiger is coming along ok. I have the fues. finished and all the gear installed. I just came up from the basement, I've got the bottom of the wing covered. Had one heck of a time with the tips. there must be some trick to getting all the wrinkles out of the rounded ends. I also found out why you cover the wings before anything else, I'm out of Mono cote. I bought 3 rolls. I have to buy 1 more roll to finish the wing. Dang! I really don't want to pc. the top. This is my first build,not bad for being 63 years old!

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Tom it sounds like a plan. Don gave me his E-mail address . I'll drop him a note. Whats going this weekend? My wife is going down state to Xmas shop with our girls.

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Let's PARTY guys!!!! :)

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Gary and Barron, Let's meet at Don's. Should we ask him first? Naw. This weekend sounds good to me. Weatherbug says there's a chance of flurries with a high of 31. BRRR!!!!

Gary, set it up with Don and I'll be there.

Barron you are welcome to join us. The drive would be shorter if Lake Michigan was froze over!!!

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Drive???? Man I'd like to fly!!! (myself that is)

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Howdy gents. I think I decided on an airplane. SIG Fourstar 60 sized with a 60-75 sized motor. :)


Tom, bottom wing of the bipe is almost done. I finally just decided to rig the wing how I wanted to instead of trying to figure out how these filler blocks went. Then unfortunately after I set my dihedral to 3/4" under the last wing tips..I realized the next day (yes I built this wing in 1 day) that my wing was cantered foward like an inverse arrow. DOH. Musta shifted during the 'bending' process. :( So I took a saw to it, and had to make it all happen again. This time however I had alot of work to do to make a dihedral brace to join the two wings and MANY little pieces covered in about 2 oz of medium CA to strengthen the wing in the center.
The best part of all of this, (yes there is one) is that sanding the leading edge to shape went FAST. I can't believe how much better this turn out than the top wing. Makes me ALMOST (yea right) redo the leading edge on the top wing. I figure after a horrible crash I will redo it then. :) I figured out how to sand it much better.
So anyway. How's everything going guys?

Got a little great white north thing going in here I see?

Supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow. Didn't get my snow tires on yet. DOH. Oh well, they really didn't help much other than to move forward. With all the hills around here most accidents happen from tail slides and 360x? spinouts. OH JOY I can't wait for all this.

S

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Barron, The Traverse City airport is 2 miles from my house. I'm on the east end of the runway. Fly on in. I'll be there to meet ya!!!

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Sincraft, I wondered where you were. Progress!!! That's a good thing.

You'll like the Four Star. I flew one a few years back. It was fun. Still planning on a 4 stroke? Doesn't sound like it.

Should be about time for Bill and Elad to respond. Then most of the gang will bee here.

Don and I are planning on meeting Gary496. He is a member of our small club and we've never met.

Weather the last couple of days has been great. Sunny and no wind. The forcast for the weekend, when we can fly, isn't so promising.

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All:

Well, our little band is growing. We began with TomDump, SkinRash, Eladed, Don the Oldest Son, and your humble (well, maybe not so humble) interlocutor, me. Then we got the Sailor of the Nobility, Baron Swabby. Finally, we have been privileged to have the first three posts of Weiss the Wary.

And a big welcome to you, Weiss the Wary.

And I am jealous at having no invitation to the coming soiree. But at the same time I'm relieved that I don't have either to refuse it, or risk the family jewels to the cold by accepting it. I have heard many tales of brass monkeys becoming sterile when visiting up your way.

Now to RC.

SinkRaft, the 4*60 is a nice plane, but not as nice as the 4*40. the 60 is basically an enlargement of the 4*40 with no refinement. The refined 4*60 is the Venture 60, designed by the same man who did the 4*40 - Bruce Tharpe left Sig and the 4*60 was done by another employee there. Bruce put all the improvements in the Venture 60.

Just sticking my nose into your selection again.

Bill.

PS: I'm sure all the members of the little group know, but for the odd lurker "Weiss" is the German translation of Gary496's surname. wr.

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Not to worry no danger lurk here. To bad you can't be here tomorrow for coffee with Tom & Don to see for your self.

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Gary, Bill would freeze to death up here. If it drops below 60 degrees he goes into hibernation!!!

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bill must be one of the hibernia folk
gary see you at 9:00 tomrrow bring your plane if it isnt snowing and blowing
bill dale sinkrate snoop baron yall invited to coffee at Patty Cakes resturant sticky pecan rolls are great there

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Gary, It doesn't look good for flying today. 10mph winds with 24 mph gusts. looks like coffee and hangar flying is the order of the day.

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Don:

Hibernian? How did you guess I have Scotch in my blood? Have you been spying and watching me buy my Glenfiddich single malt at the package store? Can't stand Dewar's, if you're too cheap to get me the Glenfiddich at least spring for Glenlivet.

Haw.

Bill.

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Bill, Barron, Where were you guys? Met Gary at Patty Cakes for coffee this morning. Then we all went to Don's and hangar flew for a few hours. Had a good time. Maybe you guys can make it next time!!!

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Well tell us where his hanger is!!!! oh I was hunting.

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Barron, Did you get one? Did you use your car, or take the easy way and use a gun?

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Earlyer this year used a Menards truck. But no going the HARD way archery. And no didn't get one yet. [>:]

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Barron, A few years back, someone bagged my neighbors' house with an arrow. Was that you?

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Barron, I forgot. If you can find Buckley, Michigan, you can find Don's hangar. Just ask where the airplane guy lives and you'll find it. Small, small village!!! He lives right behind Patty Cakes. Can't miss it.

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I'll be there (maby) :).

That shure was as trophy. No not me but I have bagged our garage.

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Oh where oh where has our little slime crunch gone do you suppose he has that new plane all together by now ?
"I shot an arrow ito the it fell to earth i know not where" we should all be wearing hard hats- tom even got a missle stuck in his house

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Forgot about that. It went through the siding, burned through the insulation and meltrg the fire resistant wallboard. I was lucky it didn't catch the clothes in the closet on fire and burn the place down. Didn't know about it until the neighbor kid came over and fessed up.

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That could have been me. :)

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Hey boys,

Well, I missed 2 pages and it's still the same thing,,,

Hee hee hee,
Hoe hoe hoe,

and a couple of

MWAHAAHAAs.

Just a tune from "The Wizard of RCU."

And hello Gary, nice to hear the new blood in the airways. Welcome to the forum.

I ain't been flying but I ain't sinfully krashed anything either. The wx down here is finally almost like Autumn. We did have a few cool nights. Today was shirt sleeve weather, but it rained from Noon until about now (nearly 7:00PM.)

Sorry I missed the kauphy (cajun spelling of coffee) at Patty Cakes place. Maybe next time.

Nutin' new around here, just a rerun. "Same Stuff Different Day."

Those engine pics... Shoooooooooooeeeeee!!!

See ya later guys,

elaD

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elad notmuch going on here. Raining, about 40, not much good for any thing, but drinking and sex.

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Hi Gary,

Well, I'll have the coffee with ya,,, but not the sex.:eek:

elad

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Come over here to spice up your life!! We got 10 count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 inches of Starting--Now--Over--Winter. And it is 16 deg. Tonights lows 0-5 below (below what?).

Otherwise nothing new.

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Barron, Your weather is on it's way here. Wind and snow forcast for tonight and tomorrow. Maybe we should have coffee with Elad or Bill. Gary will be joining Bill in Flrida, soon. Snowbirds!! I'm envious.

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Don:

Ya'll come on down. Warning, though, we're having a cold snap. Daytime temperatures haven't been making it into the 70s for the past few days. You probably should bring at least a light jacket.

My servosx get sluggish below 70, and they (I) refuse to work below 60.

Haw.

Bill.

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Bill, It's 70 in my house!!! I wish that counted.

You really should come up here during the winter. It would give you some stories to tell the locals. I'd even give you snow blowing lessons!!!

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Bill, where is Mary Esther fl. I,m headed to Panama City Bch. the 29th. Its starting to get a lot like winter here.

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Gary:

Mary Esther is just west of Fort Walton Beach. And while I have a ME mailing address, I am actually a fair bit further west, Panama City is about 80 miles east of my house.

If you look at a map of the Florida panhandle, there's Pensacola. About 40 miles to the east, well, there's FWB centered on the southern border of Eglin AFB. Sacn to the west on highway 98, look for a small dot indicating the town of Navarre, I'm about 1/2 way between FWB and Navarre.

And we still have our eight flying sites.

Bill.

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Well Bill get up here. This morn' woke up to readings on 4. Anything over 45 is short sleve and shorts weather. [8D] You an't cold. :) Ya come on and get snow blowing lessons. And you eight flying sites are small compared to Minnesota's 10,000 flying sites. (frozen lakes) :):D

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Barron, your weather is here!!!! Saw a truck in a ditch on the way home from work. I'm afraid this time it's not going to melt. Low of 9 tonite. The Lake is keeping things warm.

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-5 this morning. :)
Ya the Christmas Party was great I won 2oz of Med CA. There was a Saito 72, Os 40 FX, about 12 containers of CA, Ultra Stick 1.20 Arf, Servos, 3 700MA Batteries, Hand crank fuel pump, Allen wrenches, 4 gals of Wildcat 2&4 st 15% nitro Fuel, and more....with cold weather!!!!

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Oh should be getting some good ICE on the lakes.

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Barron, My little Home Depot ponds are frozen. Does that count? Actually the smaller lakes are freezing over. I live by Grand Traverse Bay. The west bay may not freeze, but the east bay, by my house usually freezes over in February. It's much shallower. Not much flying from the lakes in the winter. Too much snow. Same for flying from the field. The snow we get here, is the light fluffy stuff. Skies just sink in. Floats may work, but I haven't seen it done.

Don flies hand launched electrics in the winter.

There's a fly in on Jan. 1st. Don't know if I'll go. They do have a heated club house and food, so you never know.

Stay warm!!!

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HAND LAUNCH!!!!! :) The solution to all problems.

The Home Despot ponds count IF there is plenty of flying space around them.