my dream plane.

SHHHHHHH. DO not tell my boss........



otherwise:


I was able to arrange for the Old Dominion to not deliver to my house. Instead, I went and picked it up and then unloaded it when the boss went out to do some shopping.

This is what you get when you order the airplane:

very well packaged and two boxes.

One box is 82" long. this is the one that has the fuselage.

the other box has the wings.

The quality of the packing is very good and no damage.

Motor-Box construction:
1. 1st step is to identify all the parts needed and to draw out the lines on the firewall for the down thrust and the right thrust.

I will do 3 degrees of right thrust and one degree of down thrust.

Using the plans, I was able to identify the lines.

Just out of interest, I want to create this poll, and the question is,

what radio system do you plan to use during 2017???

This is purely to get an idea of what people are using out there.

Some rules:

1. Please only answer if you live and fly in the continental USA. I am trying to get an idea of what radio is used most in our country.

2. Please do not make any comments or statements that are controversial, provoke controversy, or start a brand war. Any such comments will be deleted. Sorry, in advance.

3. Please answer the poll, but keep comments to minimum if none at all.

4. If your radio system is not listed, please do leave a comment as the name of your transmitter.

Thank you and Happy New Year...

Anyone have any advice, any words of wisdom, any suggestions, as to how we can increase numbers?

My club, when I joined, had over 120 members. Now, our club has under 60.

In the past 3 to 4 years, a surrounding neighbor of ours, sold dirt from around our flying field, so that the Interstate 49 extension could be built. Meaning, they took dirt from his property, and used it for the construction of the highway. As a result of this, the area near to our property, is now a huge hazzard! mainly, water!

I have attached some photographs I took, one day, having fun, installing a camera to my 91" Extreme Flight YAK. Fun day that was!

Well, last night, we were at our club's Christmas party, and talking to the members, we discussed this, and I was trying to figure out, what is happening to our hobby. One of the members, who is a retired colonel, and has been flying RC for over 50 years, says, in general, the hobby is gone. People do not build, and do not spend that time talking about building, flying, repairing, as they used to in the past.

I mentioned to them, and I do not know if this is valid at all, that in 2015, the sales of drones exceeded 1 million. Thinking, this is one way for anyone to enjoy RC stuff, without dealing with airplanes, and the amount of time required in our hobby to get one in the air, and the amount of skill required to land one (we all take this for granted), however, as compared to a drone, they are cheap, and anyone can fly one, and you hit a switch, and it lands on its own (some of them).

Well, one of my friends mentioned, how ARF's has made it so much easier for people to fly, and although those pilots do not spend the time to build them, maybe, it is easy to get in to the hobby as it is to get out of it, if anything happens to their ARF.

Well, what are your thoughts?