Project 6: a scratch built HLG made to fit in a plastic rifle case for travel. Plastic blow-molded fuse from old COX sloper cut in half for a pod, Corndogger HLG wings, arrow-shaft fuse and foam/balsa tail group. Thing is darn heavy and doesn't fly well. yet. A Second COX Slope Hawk pod is destined to become a twin boom tailed electric pusher.
Project 7: Kyosho Melody 1/.5m motorglider. Had this since mid-80's, a beautiful little semiscale-looking blow-molded plastic version of a generic European glass slipper t-tailed plane with thin, scale-like Eppler wings removable motor pod on top. Just a very sexy little thing. (Really would like to make a mold of the fuse before I accidentally kill it some day) This thing was a dog when it was new, mostly because I flew it too heavy and the nicad and motor technology of that day was weak. It was a fair thermal glider on a hi-start though, and the motor pod would work great with current outrunner or lipo/ speed 400 technology and the cheap tiny hitec 55 servos I couldn't afford in the eighties. Project 8: Graupner UHU plastic fuse for 2.5 meter Speed 600 electric soaring on 7 cells of sub-c nicad mojo. Tail built; wings, not so much. Heavy fertigrumpf plastic supposed to be indestructible. Project 9: Original Kyosho foam EDF F-16 fuselage parts, only $17, how could I resist, I intend to make more scale-like wings and tail from scratch and make it look like an IL Air Guard Falcon but have yet to decide if it will be EDF or a pusher or what. Project 10: GWS A-10 warthog EDF. I've worked on an A-10 model project on and off for 15 years without success or progress, this one just screamed "buy me before they stop making me!" And was cheap. It's on hold in storage. Project 11: NIB Klingberg wing 100 incher. Waiting for better results out of the 2-meter one first, plus, the kids were always underfoot and I was afraid I didn't have the room, gear, and several hours in a row to try and prepare and glass the wing parts, plus, my building skills were immature and like as not I'd have goobered it up, and she's so pretty she deserves better. This one will probably wait till the eldest kid moves out or someone builds it for me. Project 12: Zagi THL that has so far neither been successfully "T" or "HL". No slopes by me, so I'm converting it into a cheap trainer for my son, Intend to put a really cheap and slow GWS speed 400 pusher on it. Project 13: Kyosho 2.4M motorglider "Typhoon" t-tailed, looks kinda like a Fournier, pretty. Kyosho used to make these in gas and electric versions as the "Valencia". Got the fuse and tail for free, just need to build some wood wings and add a geared speed 600, or now maybe some kind of outrunner motor. Project 14: Goldberg Electra custom, with aileron wing with V-tail, built, covered, needs guts and motor. Just lost interest, it was only a so-so covering effort. Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion! Mark S. ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489