Sigh.....

Well, it got me a third in Topeka last weekend, but it didn't make it back to upright this morning, and the grass isn't as soft as I'd hoped!

Hey WR,

Sorry to hear (see) what happened to your 'stang. Know you had a lot of time in that plane. If it's any consolation, I bunged up my Flite Streak and I wasn't even out flying. The garage door got it. I am pretty sure Jim et al are at the circle today. I've got other priorities today.

I'll fly the Nobler till I have the next ship up and running. I was getting ready to start building after getting done with the floor install today/tomorrow. But I kinda thought I could get a little more mileage out of the Stang. Guess not.

I opened the Vector kit up two weeks ago, just a mater of cleaning up aft er the carpet tomorrow and pourin on the glue. Probably should build two at a time as I do have two kits. But I think I'll go make mistakes on the first one and then find all new mistakes to make on the 2nd later.

Next time you're in a similar fix, don't even attempt to put the LG back on the ground side. All you'd break is a needle, and a tail fin (scrape the canopy on pavement, as well, I suppose, but you said it was grass).

(Almost any other day in the plains states and you could keep on doing lazy eights until your arm and shoulder get too sore to continue . . )

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Kiwi

It just burped, I thought I had another couple laps.

I never got to say goodbye...

I never got to say, goodbye...

Ohhhohohhhoho arggghhh, coughcough, spit, wheeze.

It really turned in when the engine stopped, there had to be something wrong with that sucker.

And yeah, just a dead air day, I was already backing up most of the manuevers to get into clear air.

That Mustang looks restorable to me. Might take some time, maybe a good winter project next building season. I am sure Windy U. would think it was a piece of cake rebuild.........don't trashcan it yet!.....TD

Sorry for you loss, Clean.

Man, that is always tough. I put 2 in at one contest last year. Started wondering why I do this.

Today, I was finishing up the retrofit (made the rudder adjustable) on my main plane. Went to put the leadouts back into a reason position (they had be moved pretty far back to overcome a mis-alighed rudder) and found out the threads on the leadout slider were stripped. Great!! So I had to cut into the bottom of the wingtip and fix it. This with the patch spot on the fuse to accomodage the anchor for the adjuster for the rudder is starting to make this brand new plane look like a East LA low-rider. Primer spot here, primer spot there. I would patch up the paint, but it's metallic. You have to go to the panel lines and I just don't want to put on that much weight.

Oh well, hopefully it will be serviceable. I can say that the next one will have an adjustable rudder from the start and I'll re-think how I make that line slider.