Kevin...thanks. Your advice was not too late. I am still finishing up some "structure" on the fuse and servo "beds" and other such stuff so I have not started sheeting. GREAT info on the direction of sheeting!! Thanks! I will be out of town this weekend but will probably start sheeting next week. My hope is to have it ready for covering by this time next week. Covering...GATOR, you got a FREE place to stay in Vegas if you'll cover this for me!!! I have only covered one other plane and I HATED every minute of it. I've got some good ideas, or so I think, for covering but just hate to cover. It got so bad that the last time I had to repair an unfortunate and untimely gravity storm, I covered the fix in clear packing tape...looked like crap but worked and had me flying again that same day...and NO covering!! Anyway, thanks again Kevin!!

Chuck....I would love to hear your story...any chance it involves an overnight "party" at a house of ill-repute?

LOL damn, I just wont say anything about the Topcap untill I have proof. Mike, Pismo beach is only 3 hours if you drive slow, 2 hours if you go a little faster.

I have been to lake mead, and its just huge, you can really get screwed out there by running out of gas, because gas stations around there are like every 20miles[X(]

A (rich) local rancher was buddies with Benny Binion. We went out to the National Finals one year, Benny was already dead, and the Horseshoe was where the old timers stayed. There was a kid, I think it was Jack's son....he was related somehow to Benny....who was autistic and loved to party. He didn't know the value of $$$, just knew that with a phone call to the cage, he could get more. Him and a couple of others loaded up in limos and hit the strip clubs, came back to the penthouse with quite an entourage. We stayed up there most of the night, when the girls wanted more $$$, the kid just picked up the phone and security brought some more up.

We were back at our hotel room the next morning, having some bloody Mary's, when the rancher gets a call I think from the casino manager (they all knew him...we were treated like royalty at the Horseshoe). I could just hear one side of the conversation, "Yeah, that's about right, yeah about $25 thousand, OK". And he said they were just calling to confirm that the kid really had drawn $25K from the cage, wanting him to give them some confirmation on what must have seemed like an awful lot of loot for one night's party.

I know it's not snowboarding in Fresno, but it was the kind of party that Chuckaugeris Maximus likes to attend.

Chuck...sounds like a party that I would like!!! He wasn't too autistic if he had those kinds of social skills!! Well hopefully Chuckaugeris Maximus doesn't get out like that too often as I hear it is an endangered species and what a shame it would be for it to become extinct due to WAY TOO MUCH FREAKIN FUN!!!! It does sound as though Chuckaugeris Maximus was in his natural habitat though and far be it for me to stand between an endangered species and it's natural habitat!! What a night it must have been!!!!