Tuesday, August 5, 2025

More new planes

The red one was a kit of a Classic model I won at the El Dorado contest raffle. The blue one was a kit I bought of a classic model because I didn't have a classic plane and after winning the red one I now have two classic planes. The red one called J. D. Falcon built quite light at 43 ounces and has an O.S. .46LA engine and the blue one is smaller and has an O.S. .25 engine. I flew the Falcon for the first time yesterday, 8/4/25 and the red one, called Peacemaker, today the 5th. The blue one did a loop right off the ground and almost crashed but I got line tension back in time. I made several adjustments to it when I got home. The Falcon started with 59 foot lines then 61 footers and today I made some 60 foot lines for tomorrow sesion. The paint I used I got in a tool box I bought at the hobby shop. There was 4 bottles of "Aero Gloss" 4 ounce paints. I had the same colors in Brodak paints so I mixed red to red, blue to blue and white to white. Something happened during the mixing and what happened was all colors went from gloss to flat. I didn't worry about it as I was going to clear coat it with a gloss urethane 2 part paint. That made it shine. The park has agreed to mow a place for me that is shorter than the rest of the grass.

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