After a few month hiatus from building the AJ Slick I am back at it. The Robins have arrived to sing their sweet song in the morning, that can only mean spring is almost here! Time to get of my lazy kester and finish up the largest, most expensive plane in my fleet. I am really trying to build this plane right, as a lawn dart with this plane might just make me give up on this hobby for awhile….Ok probably not,but still. It looked pretty coming out of its packaging and I hope to build it right and keep it that way. I focused on servo installation today. I am using Hitec 7955TG servos. Quite the upgrade from the HXT900’s I am used to buying. Almost had to take out a home equity loan just for the dang servos. I should be able to use them in larger birds if I ever go bigger, and yes in this hobby bigger is better! For the first time I am using SWB metal control horns. I am using 2″ horns on the elevator halves and the ailerons. The rudder is a wire pull-pull system and it will be using a 4″ SWB rudder horn. It will be my first time rigging a wire system so YouTube here I come. It was also the first time installing servos inside of elevator halves. It took a bit of time but I eventually got it. My magnetized screw drivers were a godsend. One tip for anyone using SWB arms. They are a tight fit. Get the grooves just started and use the screw to pull them down over the splines. This will make them much easier to take on and off later. I only had to do this with the elevator servos as the servos would not fit inside the elevator half with the control horn preinstalled. To some today’s work up. My wings have the servos installed and were placed in their storage bags and set in the garage. The elevator halves have been installed on the plane with their servos. I mounted the rudder control horn on the rudder servo. Tomorrow I will work on the wire rigging. Enjoy the pics! Also for those of you using a DX7 and need to use two servos for the ailerons and two servos for the elevator check out this link. It helped me setup the correct mixing on my radio. http://www.spektrumrc.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1798

Take a look at the attached PDF. We received this invitation from the Suburban RC Barnstormers in Wheaton, IL. Thought I would pass it along to everyone.

Barn Stormer’s Swap Meet

Just a quick note that there was another error with the website. New submissions came through as being from the Mike  ID instead of the TCAF ID. I have corrected the error with the email submission system however it required the address be changed.

Please check the Members Only Information page for the new address to submit via email. I apologize for the inconvenience.

-Mike

About the second week of January Terry and I both flew our planes a couple of times, in the middle of the week. Several other times we have flown either planes or helis during January and February. A couple of times Bill Porter also was out to try it. Curious if any others have been taking advantage of the mild winter we are having? The first picture is of my UCanDo, and the second of Terry’s 4 Star.
Rich Moore

Everyone,

It looks as if the feature to post to the website with an email was disabled in the system. I have re-enabled it however that has caused a new ‘secret’ email address to be generated.

Please check the Member Only Information page for the new address.

-M