NetHeads, I don't know about the rest of you guys that are almost finished, but I'm just about tired of folks asking me when it's going to fly! As proof that I'm still a long way away, I offer the photo at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/wing_art.jpg , which clearly shows that I'm still knee-deep in the dreaded wing-sanding phase. The rest of the plane has the coat of urethane primer that it's going to fly in for the next year, but the wings were still coated with five layers of Smooth Prime, which takes some effort to sand away. And this "little chore" is not even on my list of 32 things I need to finish before I fly it! I'm not far from shooting a coat of urethane primer on the bottom of this one, but I've still got the other side of this one and a whole 'nuther one to go.
I'm getting there though, just not fast enough to make the Gathering this year. To go ahead and answer that question, I really think I'll be flying it in November. I kinda like the idea of first flights in the Winter, because cooling issues will not be as big a problem, and I'll have time to fine tune it as things warm up in the Spring. I'm going to get some Swift time on Saturday, to work on my taildragger skills some more. After talking to Bill Clapp, I really feel like I could fly mine with the skills I have right now, but I guess we'll see about that. See y'all at the Gathering... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
