After cutting last night, I got out the airbrush and sprayed some paint! If I'm lucky, tomorrow or late tonite, I'll get it assembled.....

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I finally finished messing with the drawings and went ahead and cut a full JUKA. Like always, I tile printed the plans I drew in CAD, then taped them together carefully, and finally glued them to the depron with 3M Removable Gluestick. A few swipes with a #11 blade and I had myself a foamy kit....

While I was cutting, I added in the same aileron counterbalances that I'm running on several other airplanes.

The horiz/ele is a bit odd to me on this one... the full scale has a ProBro style 'dog-eared' elevator. I went ahead and drew the foamy with that feature as...

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Last night, I spent a good amount of time fiddling with the drawing of the JUKA I'd like to finish up.

Before going to bed, I decided to cut a fuse out to see how it sized up. Frankly, I did not like what came out of the depron.....

So I decided to re-draw much of the fuse. I really wanted more side area on the fuse to allow it to float a little more when in KE. Span went up a little as well.

Attached below is the revised drawings....

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I really want a new freestyle airplane for this year, so its time to knock it out...(already finished my new precision design).

I've designed countless foamys now, including some that have seen production or been published in magazines. I believe most other designers follow a similar method for their madness.

I start off by deciding which direction to go- Scalish? Wild? Bipe? Mono? For this one, I've decided to go somewhat scalish and a monoplane. I hope this will end up being a good enough design to fly in freestyle's this year, and I hope it will suit my flying...

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Finally got the workshop back in running order.... Took 4 hours to tear apart, and took 4 days to get it back in running order.....

Final specification - 2 car garage which has to hold the wife's car, my vintage car, all my bicycles, the mower... and finally, one 'working workbench', 2 storage benches and one cabinet.

The working bench is a home built frame with a solid core door on top, then topped with sheetrock to have something to pin to. I leveled the entire bench to within 1 tenth of a degree all the way across the board. I doubled the lighting while I was at...

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