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Hey it's me... Dan from the future!!!Good call on the flaps, I'm already conspirering to recover this one in fabric. Check your prop clearance as in this build series I ended up going to a 30cc dle. The gear height might not be enough for a 20 inch prop. Just a suggestion. Check it out.

@@Capgains7777 Good point about the prop clearance. I also have a set of floats that will fit this plane very well, my club has 4 or 5 float flies a year, hopefully this will be my go to plane.

That is the struggle on laying out a fuse. Many things can cause the banana ing of a fuse. Sometimes it could be one side is slightly softer than the other, so picking carefully to match the sides is a consideration. But for the most part if you can build over the plan and make sure the sides match the lines is going to help infinitely. I like using a magnet board for my layouts so it is very easy to set the magnet on the line and keep the side braced to it. You can also do it with pinning if you use pins to build. Another good practice is to draw a centerline on the plan, and centerline on each former so as you install them you will be centering the former and the sides should come flush to them and be centered. Eyeball your work as you progress. I will typically have a T pin standing straight up on the centerline of former 1 and a t pin on the centerline of the furthest back former or where the sides come together. You can periodically look down them as you add parts and even temporarily run a string between the two to see that things are running down the fuse equidistant. Lastly make sure the fuse is flat on the table or crutch (if it uses that method) twist is also a banana maker. So keep an eye on the sides matching in height as you build. If you get a variance you may have to reset a former that is causing the twist, maybe glued at an angle or not squared up to the side. But take your time and build as straight as you can.

Hurricane = herdi ken. Hahaha. Glad you are enjoying the content. Hoping to get back in the shop soon and start working off my list of projects. It was a busy summer of big non hobby projects.

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I am retired. Two years now. The only thing that really holds up my time now is the 50 year old home we bought, and the repair and many projects my wife requisitions. I think I have shown shots of the backyard raised garden project in some of my videos. At some point I hope to finish up and work mostly on my airplane inventory. The mini split is easily the best piece of equipment I have bought for the shop ever. When we bought the house there was a Pik a watt commercial grade shop heater that ran with a 220v 50 amp breaker. It used a good amount of power running 24/7 just to keep the shop at 50 degrees in the winter. However summer brings sometimes 2 1/2 months of 90-100 degree days which makes the shop 82-85 by the end of the day. Not pleasant to work in. The mini split is a heat pump, so it heats and cools. It's a Mitsubishi and I think it's 12,000 btu. Cools my 20x24 shop down fairly quickly. And heats much the same. It did not run up a high electricity cost. The breaker on this one is 220v 15 amps so, it is lighter draw much more efficient. Not cheap, but, very effective if you want to be able to be in your shop at virtually any time. In the winter I will fire up football games and spend entire days out there working on airplanes and projects.

Or, maybe some big bush wheels. Cheaper than a paved runway and way more fun.

Almost as boring as one of your maidens Andy. Did you see after the flight, he wasn’t even shaking. Great Bruce Tharpe design.

@@Capgains7777 love his designs. This weekend I get do maiden a Jerry Bates Boeing F4B biplane, should be exciting

@@n1114vGotta love a busy summer!!!! Jerry has a bunch of great designs. I’ll have a few of them coming across my table in time. Kind of excited to see your Cap take form. Mark and I are gathering up a bunch of parts for a team build Sarpolus Prime Cut. Raw foam stock takes up a lot of space!!!😝

@@Capgains7777 I had a prime cut with a G45, fantastic flyer!

@@Capgains7777 I did the Choice Cut back when Dick first published the plans. Did the double tapered wing and powered with a Quadra 52. Fantastic flyer. Even got started in some basic 3D with it. Have plans for all the "Cuts". Have wanted to do the Prime Cut for years. May get around to it before I hit 90. 😂

Fair dinkem. Someone told me that means the equivalent of “you betcha” in NZ. Thanks for watching mate.

Thank you! Cheers!

At one point right about the time Mark finished it, we joked that it could carry one of his grand children. 5 years later, and even a few more grandkids, that boat has sailed.

I’m glad he is selling plans. His kits, if you can find one in the wild are truly the best documented instructions, plans, and the quality and completeness of the contents is first rate. Plus they are great flying machines.

It’s actually a three piece. But Mark didn’t want to mess around with trying to connect wing panels at the field, so he built a shelf that goes the full length of his trailer to carry it fully assembled. It’s a two manner, as I don’t think he can either load, or unload the beast from the trailer and mount the wing by himself. It’s just huge. In addition the tail feathers are removable for transport, but he ties the fuselage to the floor of the trailer for transport. Takes up a lot of the trailer. I hope he never breaks that prop. He’ll probably cry about having to buy another.

We are in the Cascade mountains in southern Oregon.

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Mark loves Bruce Tharp designs. He has 2 of the standard sized Flying Kings, a Venture 60, a Vortex, and several of the planes that Bruce designed for Sig back in the day. He says that this is probably the biggest thing he will ever build, however, a Balsa USA Ercoupe just sauntered into his life, and it’s pretty close in size.

Amen 🙌

The cool thing about this hobby today is, we’ve all come from different start ups. So if you got your start in electrics, going over to a fuel can be intimidating. Me however, I started up in glow fuel engines. Electrics now that they have evolved from the days of can motors and Nicads to lithium and out runners, well that intimidates me. What speed controller rating? What battery size, what prop size so the whole thing doesn’t catch fire? And that pop, the big batteries make when you connect them to the ESC… makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Gas engines are easier if you have used glow, just a different carburetor to tune. I’ve gotten used to the way that electrics sound now with bigger props. I think it’s kind of funny the way some guys put sound systems in their electric planes though.

@@Capgains7777 Started off over 40 years ago with glow. Now like electric at 1200 to 1600 span. Fit a couple in the car, with one piece wing 1200s go in one piece. At the field a couple of bolts and plugs, connect the battery, a flight check and in the air.

crazy, how loud this thing is. How about a silencer??

@@DL6UK Do you mean that round thingamajig on the right hand side with two whatsimacallits pointing up?

The mountains of southern Oregon, altitude 4000 feet…. Saaaaaaaaaaallllllllutttttt. Sorry, that was an old Hee Haw reference… yeah shows my age.

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Kits are hard to find anymore, and sadly there are very few still producing them. After ARFs became all the rage, the kit makers kind of quit. As far as I know, BUSA is probably the last. Sig Manufacturing has been sold to a new owner that has fortified lines of Sigs classic planes that were all kits, to ARFs now although he has vowed to start making kits again. The word on the street is he is having the Something Extra, and LT40 kits being produced and plans to bring them all back…. I’d love to see it, but the marketer in me wonders how feasible that is, when the glut of the market seems to still be chasing the ARFs. I really wish there was a place that had a replicator like on Star Trek. You could call them, and they could with the stroke of a few keys, custom cut any kit to order with all the parts, hardware, balsa, plywood and hardwoods, instructions and rolled plans and in the mail. Ah crap, I am rambling… I did find Legend Hobby has a few kits available. I have a feeling Seagull Models may produce a few actual kits as well. Good luck.

@Capgains7777 Thank you, I find kits very hard to find. So, I started a scratch Built, No Instructions. So you take the print and you make a decision on What size wood, an interpret how to build the plane. Much harder!! I am currently scratch building a 1/3 scale Piper' Tri-Pacer pacer P22. Hard but FUN!!

@@josephkerkau2520you are correct, building with no instructions is harder and requires more interpretation. But typically there are three different assemblies that take place. Wing(s), Fuselage, Tail feathers and then sticking them together. If you find a set of plans that was published in a magazine sometime in the past then often there is an article that can be printed for more clues and that may be an answer as well. Model Aviation has a vast plans service that will sell plans that will come with the article. Some designers like Jerry Bates plans will also provide a set of instructions that are informative yet brief. There is Meister aircraft which have plans and kits but bigger and mostly warbirds. Hostetler plans, Zirolli plans are other designers that have agreements with cutting companies like National Balsa, and Precision kit cutters that can provide a complete or short kit. Bob Holman cuts kits for several designers. You can look at their website and backward find a set of plans. So you do have some options that provide you with what is essentially a kit.

Thanks Mike