Great photoshopping Dave!! 😂

And great flybys!!

Thanks for the photo-op.

Andy

Photos of details:
1) Photo 52- the whole boat shot shows the three servos in the middle, the rudder post an inch behind the pre-drilled kit hole (at the point of the green arrow), the yellow rudder pushrod sleeve, the gloss of the epoxy coating inside.

2) Photo 99- the close-up of the jib sheet tube.  It is aluminum and runs up through the deck and through two hull formers.  The purpose is that if the boat takes on water at the front, the water will only exit into the open cockpit.  It will not be trapped inside the hull. The purpose of the tube is so the jib sheet will not hang up on the wood when it goes through the hull (theory).  Note: the  pencilled "X" on the white balsa is the location of the mast.

3) Photo 17- the close-up view of the 3 servos.  The main sheet servo is at the top, the rudder servo in the middle and jib servo at the bottom.

Frank

Faster, David, faster!

Oops!

With a bigger file this would look better... but... amazing editing tools these days.

A few excellent shots Andy took of my Widgeon.  Such a great moon yesterday.

Nice F16.

Before putting the deck on:

- SERVOS: added 3 servos- one for the rudder, one for the jib and one for the mainsail.  The servos were HS 81's
- RUDDER: installed the rudder post about an inch behind the location on the plans.
- SHEETS: installed tubes for the jib sheet, main sheet, rudder pushrod.

Going further
- replaced the mast dowel (12 grams) with a carbon rod (9 grams)
- replaced the main boom at half the weight.
- replaced the mahogany deck with hardish 1/8" balsa wood.  I have decided to fibreglass the hull for waterproofing reasons.  For those who have built a boat before you will understand that water gets in everywhere no matter how tight the joints.  The old deck blanks were 49 grams.  The balsa deck is 23 grams.
- gave it two coats of 50% thinned epoxy on the inside for waterproofing reasons.  Thinned it with de-natured alcohol.

Frank

yup flying went well. aside from the frozen fingers i did what i came to do today

will have to do some readjusting on the plane but otherwise itl be ok

ii find these planes too expensive for me. i see a possible freewing mig 29 in my future but thats over half the price of this 105 for about the same scale and power