[Jim Woodward]

Guys - I picked up my new airplane therapy last night. It is a CA Models PassPort delux ARC. Thank you so much Marcelo and Luiz for bringing this in for me. This is the perfect therapy cure for my crashed Osmose - RIP. I really appreciate the extra effort the shop made to paint this for me to help get in the air faster after my crash in Bogota.

The CA Guys did a nice surprise and painted it white for me, which means that I can go straight to a little clean up work, and shooting colors. I'm looking to have this in the air in 2-3 weeks and flying at the Tangerine contest in December, one way or another. After waything Marcelo and several others fly the PassPort in Bogota at the South American Open Championships, I'm sure that this ship is one of the finest planes on the market now. It looks to be very stable in wind conditions, and by the feel of the fuselage, should come out under 10.5 lbs similar to the osmose.

I'm going to post some pictures as I go along. My plan is to outfit with the YS 170 and Hatori 821/822 header/pipe combination. I'll use Jerry Budd's nose ring and engine mount like I have for some years now. I'll install Futaba 9650's in the elevators, 9151 on the ailerons, and 9156 on the rudder. I'll look to mimic the instalation I did on the Osmose regarding fuselage formers and tank installation. However, the PassPort is a bit bigger, so I think I'll add one additional lighted former to box-in the open bay better. After about 120 flights on the Osmose, it was "tight" like a new plane, so I think the methods proved them selves good enough to me. I'll paint a similar scheme like I did on the Osmose.
thanks,
Jim