King Orange.

We went to Glen St. Mary, Fl for the King Orange contest I first heard about in the late 50's. It's been running every year for 63 years now. I had to go and see what it was all about. It used to be held in late December but after getting froze and wind blown every year they moved it to mid Sept. Even with the hurricane in the Carolina's there wasn't any wind and the temps reached into the mid 90's. I got a third place in profile stunt using my electric Pathfinder. On the second flight the outboard wing half broke off and that ended that. On my first flight on Sunday with the Hound Dog I scraped the ground on the wing over maneuver and stopped the engine. No damage though. The only thing wrong with the Pathfinder is the wing so I ordered a wing kit for it. It helped that I won a $50.00 gift certificate in the raffle to the place that made the kit.  It came in today.
  I painted the Jamison and the new plane with white dope as a base color. Today I sprayed some green trim and it looks like a flat color. That's it for dope and back to the Rustoleum.
  One of our neighbors put a push mower on the roadside with a sign that said Free. I grabbed it. Today I looked at it and started it. Lots of vibration. I removed the blade and found that it was installed wrong. i had to drill and tap the mount so the blade could be centered. It needs a new blade as the one that's in it now is bent and missing a washer. It runs smooth now.

Said I'd never do it but I did.

The large plane with the foam wing has been giving me trouble with the flaps. The first set was way too small. So I made up another set but they were too flexible. I figured that the expert on the forums could help with the design of  the flaps. The reply's have gone around the barn and are quite hard to build. Then another chimed in and mentioned a design that I could build easily. This is the same person had offered advise to someone else on a different subject and I tried it and the plane crashed because of it. He got it right this time and I just finished building the new flaps. The wing halves are ready to glue together finally.

  The other day at the park I set up the electric Pathfinder for the first flight of the day and the electronic speed controller shorted out and destroyed itself. I was able to get back to the plane and disconnect the battery before it burned up the plane. I ordered a new one and it came in yesterday and I got in two flights with the plane with no problems.
  I got some butyrate dope paint for the Jamison Special and the big planes fuselage. I have to wait for drier weather as it needs to have the fan going when I paint. I'm going to use iron on covering for the big planes wing and stab/elev.