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The Robart gear has been disassembled, painted white, cleared, reassembled and reinstalled into the wing. The tailwheel and its gear doors have been built and pockets made and installed to accept the hinges during final assembly. All the servo hatches were installed and set up for surface mounted aileron andContinue Reading

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I mounted the wheels. I sorted thru about 6 pair to find some to use. The ones shipped with the kit are awful. Dubro 5″ inflatable were the easiest to do. I have more scale ones but these fit easy. I was studying the overall shape and decided that theContinue Reading

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I’m replacing the abs exhaust stacks with printed ones. Trying to get the placement correct. Still looks low. The cowl fits the backplate and the engine is in the right spot. Seems there may be too much slope in the top of the cowl and the spinner shape is notContinue Reading

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Details ,details , details. After attaching the stacks to the cowl I opened up the “exhaust pies to flow air by drilling them out with a 7mm drill. Also added a second slot behind the first on the bottom of the cowl. The exhaust outlets along with the sixty-four 1/8″Continue Reading

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I’m replacing the abs exhaust stacks with printed ones. Trying to get the placement correct. Still looks low. The cowl fits the backplate and the engine is in the right spot. Seems there may be too much slope in the top of the cowl and the spinner shape is notContinue Reading

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During the racing days of Warbirds in St. Louis I had a practice racer that I flew constantly doing laps and making left hand turns. It was a modified Jemco fun scale Mustang that was modified with a sheeted wing and had an OS .40 Rear exhaust engine and a Macs Muffler. It was done in the race colors of Leroy Penhalls #81 Reno racer from 1969-70. Continue Reading

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Maiden Flight at the field after over 30 years. Some Old School RC flyin’ from Jim Grants Fleet. Dad scratch built this Gee Bee from plans back in the early 90’s and it hung un-flown on the ceiling of his shop until yesterday! I went through her earlier this month,Continue Reading

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I needed a bad ass spinner for my Cassult Formula One Racer so the only place to go was of course, Tru-Turn. To my horror, after today, June 30th, 2022 there will no longer be custom order spinners available to us modelers who need them. I’ve been putting these highContinue Reading

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Hope everyone is staying inside, safe and warm today. In this installment I intend to answer a few questions raised at club meetings and point out remaining details. There is some polishing to do in the spring but the hard part is done and I am looking forward to usingContinue Reading

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According to Spirits own Paul Geders, Mark Twain Hobbies has BIND AND FLY Night Vapors in the store for $106.85 with Tax including your Spirits of St. Louis Discount of 10%. You’ll need a Spektrum radio to fly it. GET ‘EM for the February 8th indoor fly/meeting BEFORE THEY AREContinue Reading

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Started with a good broom, applying Kilz to the stains, removing the wall panels, adding insulation and a coat of white paint brought near life to the trailer. All the while considering how I want to store, stack, hang, secure, etc my planes. I am prone to overthinking things, lookingContinue Reading