February 2006 Trunk Pilot

Things are almost back to normal in the Monster Hanger after the holidays. The Waco is progressing nicely with mid February for the final painting and polishing. Trunky has settled down and is back to his duties. We have had a couple of interesting visitors to the hanger lately. Don Heitzerling was over last Sunday for some consultation on his Ford Tri Motor. He had the plans blown up from the Cleveland models plan. He has a great start and has elected to power the one fifth scale plane with electric motors. The air frame pictures will be on the web site. Don had a smaller version at last years show. The plane is covered with corrugated aluminum sheets. He has made the equipment to duplicate the corrugation.

The other visitor was Kurt. He has a brand new Extra 260, of the Carden variety. The plane is built very light and I assisted him with an ultra lite paint job. During one of the sessions the question came up, Doe’s sand paper wear out? Most of the projects that have passed thru the hanger the answer is no because it wasn’t used enough. Boy is sanding a real pain. Well, that’s about it for now the Trunk Pilot left today for Aspen he is part of my advance party. We will be leaving next Saturday. Susan will be managing the house while we are gone, but she knows nothing about R/C so save you questions till I get back. See You Soon.

Mike Barbee