Close to my birthday...  (May 22)

So with a rain day from work, I started my birthday present from Linda... the Ultra Stick Lite.  The wing halves are joined and flaps and ailerons are installed.  Dowels at leading edge and nylon bolts are fit.  Horizontal stab is glued in place and the motor is fit to the firewall.  ARF planes are much faster builds!

The P51 has seen some progress with covering on one surface of the wing.  After apprehension of using the water based sanding sealer... it looks to be working well.  The Sky Loft is simply saturated with water, shaken out and draped over the back of a chair with a towel under and in the time it takes to lay on a coat of sanding sealer the covering has shed the excess water and is ready to be layed over the wet sealer to be squeeged with a spunge working towards the fringe.  So far so good.  The plane that once seemed unlikely to ever get finished is slowly but steadily making progress.

More racks are needed for plane storage.

The decision between the Ultra Stick Lite and the Hellcat was a tough one... but, there have been some steering conversions sold recently so there is some airplane mad money and the Hellcat dream may happen yet.  On that note, a few observations from other flyers... one retired a bit early with health issues and there isn't a lot of extra money to refurbish the hanger and two others had health issues that prohibit building.   Having a full hanger doesn't seem to be a bad thing.