Blast from the past!

The Ringmaster flies! Today my father and I flew the ringmaster for the first time. It was a blast! We shared a few good laughs over the nostalgia of such an old time RC type of modeling.


Today I was able to spray the second, darker blue color on the hornet. I'm a little disappointed in the color because it turned out a bit too grey. I post-shaded the color and that helped a bit. I'll post shade the lighter blue tomorrow to see if I can't make the colors a little more accurate.




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Spanish is finished...time for an update

Just finished some spanish homework, so I thought I would post another hangar update. Today I was able to mask the black, then spray the light grey. After that I masked the plane yet again and sprayed the lighter blue for the aggressor colors.


My father covered and sprayed the white on the Ringmaster. It's gonna be a blast to fly!


My father also mounted a new variable pitch prop onto the Slowdicator. Hopefully the weather will be as nice as forcast tomorrow so we can do a lot of flying; both models and full scale.


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INTENSE!!!

Yesterday I completed my latest aviation music video. The video showcases EAA Airventure 2008 through fairly intense editing and fast pacing. A link to the youtube video can be found here (Don't forget to watch in high quality):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZc6bqTX83A&feature=channel_page

Tonight I worked in the hangar with my father. He completed some more work on the Ringmaster while I finished masking and sprayed the second color on the hornet.




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Redo!

Obviously the pictures show exactly what I mean by "redo". The previous paint combination (the norm...painting lightest to darkest) didn't work out very well because for some reason the anodized aluminum color didn't stick. So I started over with the zinc yellow, then I'll paint black...then the aggressor colors and finish the entire model with the metallic paints.




Above is a picture of the Tomcat canopy in its current state. The next step is to mask and then spray the inner and outer colors again. That's it for tonight.

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A Change of Pace

Today was a change of pace (literally) as far as flying is concerned. My father and I pulled out the Clipper and flew around the patch for about an hour. We went over Lake Granger, did a low approach at Taylor, and landed at Bird's Nest. We also replaced the Pitts fuel indicator tubing.



We also worked on the Hog Bide, and I was able to paint a little more on the Hornet. I also took a few pics of the Ringmaster in its current state.



This weekend I was also able to upload to youtube some arrival and warbird videos that I finallygot around to putting together.

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A Productive VD

Another productive day in the airplane factory. I was finally able to start work on the new canopy for Dave's tomcat. So far so good...knock on wood. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to start repainting. After going to the hobby shop this morning I was able to start the paint work on the hornet while my father continued work on the Ringmaster. The weather wasn't the best today...it was cold...hopefully tomorrow it'll warm up a bit to make aerobatics just that much more enjoyable!



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Friday the 13th update

Although today was very busy at school, major tests and all, I was still able to do a lot of work in the hangar as well as fly the Pitts for the third time in a row. The weather has been beautiful this week. No wind, and clear skies! Lately I've been flying a pretty fun and laid back airshow style routine. Although, today I jumped back into the intermediate competition routine and it's a lot slower paced and more precise than the airshow routine...but it is in no way boring! My father had the day off and was able to knock out a large portion of the "Ringmaster" u-control model. There have been a lot of new projects in the airplane factory lately.



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