Ever wonder why?

Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Lets have a look at the evidence:
No Christmas
No television
No nude women
No football
No pork chops
No hot dogs
No burgers
NO BEER
No bacon
Rags for clothes
Towels for hats
Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower
More than one wife
MORE THAN ONE MOTHER IN LAW
You can't shave
Your wife can't shave
You can't wash off the smell of donkey
You cook over burning camel shit
Your wife is picked by someone else for you and your wife smells worse than your donkey.
Them they tell you that "when you die, it all gets better"??
Well No Shit Sherlock!...
It's not like it could get much worse.

Two days of flying.

I flew the new plane on Sat. and it took 5 short flights to get the wings level. On takeoff the plane wanted to come in before lifting off. I checked the engine off set when I got home and found a bit of left thrust. I cranked the engine the other way and got a bit of right thrust. At the field this morning the takeoff was much better but it still needs more right thrust. I need to seal the hinge gaps too. The LA .40 pulls the plane nicely but I will install a .46 later on.

Ready to fly.

The re painting went better than I expected. Three days from start to RTF.

Switching to plan 'D'.

After looking at the silver paint for a while I got out the lacquer thinner and wiped it off and started over. Some sanding and masking and I painted it with Krylon silver and orange. Some black trim tape to hide the paint lines between colors and it looks kinda good from 20 feet. I'm planning on a silver stripe on the orange wings and an orange stripe on the silver tail. Then a clear coat.
Supposed to be light winds today and the snow has melted so maybe I'll go to Oneco for a flight.

Switching to plan 'C'.

After trying to glue the windshields on the two cockpits of the latest plane I decided to go back to the full canopy that was on the plane before I cut it apart. I sliced it down the center and added a 1/4 inch spacer to make the canopy wider and gave it a coat of epoxy to seal the wood. The damage to the paint may be covered with another coat of black anti glare paint.
The silver paint is weird as it discolors like new stainless does when you touch it. I'm thinking about a clear coat after the canopy is on.

More snow.

Thursday night we got 4 inches of snow and from 0600 Sat. morning to 1530 we got another 8 inches. cold and windy at the end so it made blowing the snow off the driveway messy. I got several face fulls of spray. I had adjusted the carb. on my old snow blower and I went too far as it can't take much of a load and keep running. The newer one is running fine.
I have all the pieces of the new lightning/model 33 together. It weighs 46.5 ounces. I still have to finish the cockpits.

Cold and windy.

I've got the planes flying pretty good finally. The new lightning is coming along. By removing the foam wing, building a new one and changing things as I went cut about 8 ounces off the final weight. I need some 3/16 balsa to make the flap leading edges with hinge pockets to complete the parts.I cut hinge pockets in the new wing and had to cut the hinges to remove the flaps from the old wing. Now I need to saw the cut hinges from the flaps and glue in the new pieces. The wing will be orange and the fuselage will be silver grey. The two cockpit openings make control adjustments easy. I will try X-O Rust paint on this one with a polyurethane clear.

Light and variable.

I headed for the field around 1300 and found the gate locked improperly so I couldn't get in. I drove to Oneco and got in the flights under strange winds. The planes flew well the head change worked pretty good but I had to change the tank so I have to test all over. I got both planes back to where they were almost. I centered the elevator with the flaps on both which produced better flying but had to replace the mufflers as the c/g was too far aft. Cold and windy for the next few days.

ENE 5 to 10.

The temp is in the low 40's now so I will head to the field in an hour or so. I need to affirm the changes I made to the Pathfinder and Ringmaster are where they should be. I put a head with a larger combustion chamber on one of the new .46's. It really powers up in maneuvers and this should calm it down some.
I had to make up a new stooge as the ground is too hard to stick my usual stooge into. It is a board with nails and a hookup for the usual stooge to hook into. I'll pound the nails into the ground and leave it there. With this one I can fly my full fuselage planes as they have to be started up side down. They are fastened to the stooge and flipped over, started and turned right side up for take off. With the stooge attached to the field box I can't flip the plane over with it attached to the stooge.

Still good weather.

I've been to the field most every day so far this winter. I made some changes to the big ringmaster and it flew much better in level flight but I lost the corner on insides. Outsides were extremely hard so I made a few changes and tested them today. Corners seem to be equal now. I made some changes to the Pathfinder and screwed it up. I put it back to the way it was.
I built a new wing for the Lightning and cut the foam wing out. The original had a half inch spacer on the nose and I ended cutting that off and re shaping the nose. I had put fiberglass on the fuselage and now it's biting me with the re build. I'm going to make it into a WW 2 trainer that had two open cockpits. That will give me access to the controls during and after assembly. It's a Fleetwing Model 33 trainer. Easy color scheme.