Though I've been flying for wayyy too many years, I've only been flying giantscale for about a year.

I rebuilt a Terry Boston built Carden 35% Edge two summers ago and have really enjoyed thrashing it around.

It was bound to happen eventually, so fate reared its ugly head today. While in a low hover, (tail about 3ft off the ground) the engine flared out and the airplane slowly fell to the ground.

It did the most perfect tailslide anyone has ever seen, and the rudder stuck about 10" deep into the mud in the beanfield that borders our runway. After sticking...

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Well, its finally coming back together....

I decided to replace the old hollow core door with a solid core door. I can't believe how much that thing weighs!!!!!! Then again, its lighter than the granite worksurface my father tried to pick up for me when he was getting the new countertops for his new house.....

I mounted the door on the bench I built, then I squared up the thing. Checked it for level every 6" on both axes all the way down, shimmed it where it was not level.... Its smoooooooth. I also anchored it to the bench at the back to keep it stable and prevent...

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Last year I was lucky enough to have fellow Indoor competitor AC Glenn flying with me here in Memphis. Practicing by yourself is not nearly as productive or fun as is practicing with a friend.


Another significant benefit is that I come from more of a 3D background and AC comes from more of a precision background- my successes have been in freestyle contests, and AC's have been at the NATs pattern comps. AC does not need my help much with Freestyle anymore, but I definitely still need his assistance with pattern....


Bad news is that AC went away to school...

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Well, the house is now through its 'warranty' phase, so its time to get a termite contract. We signed one the other day and made arrangements to have the house treated shortly...

Unfortunately, that means I have to pull my workbench out....... so they can get back there and finish the treatments.

I decided to take this as an opportunity to put a new work surface on my workbench and to clean up and organize all of whats up there........

This is what it looked like before I started.

I used to keep a pretty clean shop, but having...

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Well, I finally got my hands on the foamy hardware I designed. I drew this hardware up for smaller 3d oriented birds that use the Dymond 4.7 gram servos. Included in the set are landing gear braces, pushrod braces, firewall and various horns. They have shorter hole spacings to work with the Dymonds which have correspondingly shorter arms.

The smallest horns are for verrrry small projects, but I'll probably not cut them on sets of the hardware.

The cutter was very generous and sent me 3 sets to test, but the grain is not oriented right on the sheets, so the horns are...

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