Sterling PT-17 Stearman  (A hanger of models are passed on late Feb, 2007)

An unexpected third plane has been added to the build list.  It fills a long time wish to build a Sterling PT-17 Stearman.  A man came by our flying field and explained he had to dispose of his fathers RC gear.  His dad was gone and mother had kept his stuff stored in the garage, but she had recently moved to an assisted living center.  Along with several planes in various stages of construction were several boxed kits, one of them the Sterling Stearman long since out of production... and I brought it home with bitter sweet feelings... it represented a modeler that hadn't finished all the projects he'd hoped...

The same day the Stearman kit was acquired, the LT-25 kit arrived.  The Balsa USA Cub came a week ago and now a few days after getting the Stearman, the vision of the many planes unfinished by the previous owner of the Stearman kit have refreshed my memory of the personal goal made to clear out the inventory of unfinished builds in the barn.   There are three left, a Das Box Fly bipe, a little stick and a P-51 Mustang.  I'd really feel better about tackling the new builds if the goal of clearing the old projects gets done.  The wing of the little stick had suffered a good bit of damage in storage so it was trashed... two weeks later, another modeler lamented the need for a little stick fuselage... he had a wing.