Out in the Shop..."Camera-Packing Poolboy"...well, not so much...

Lot's of stuff happening in a hopscotch sort of way out in the shop.  
The Goldberg "Ranger 42" is flight-ready.  The sucker is way heavier than I wanted it to be, and may get it's tail reworked / lightened at some point so it won't need so much weight in it's nose to have a good CG location





The Testor's Skyhawk is getting a new rudder and radio.  I haven't yet decided whether to install a "cheater elevator" or not.  Of course, the STRONG temptation is to go straight rudder only, but this would prevent me flying it in the confines of my front yard.  Gonna be a "mood thing" decision.  It's getting a little bit of cleaning, and it's Golden Bee is totally ready to rock.



Uncle Wayne's Guillows P-47 is almost ready for color dope on the new silkspan under it's wing.  The plane was his "Flagship Effort" back in the day, and was never flown.  After a few decades of cooking in the up-stairs "Airplane Room" of his old farm house, the dark blue silkspan on the bottom of it's wing had "exploded" and peeled back, like super-delicate potato chips.  

Fortunately, the beautiful upper areas survived, though they're delicate as spider webs.  He wanted to see it fly, so, it's getting a healthy .049, and will have to be flown on asphalt or smooth concrete due the extremely delicate rubber-band model type landing gear.

I'm gonna make up a stooge that Wayne can operate without kneeling, to let him trigger the flight...which I intend to have some six cameras to cover.

















I was suddenly seized (nothing special...that happens a lot) with the urge to get "SinBot" ready for the Fall S.M.A.L.L., and so ventured into the Brown Recluse ruled territory of my storage shed to retrieve the old glider.  I have colorful "descriptors" for most of my planes, and SinBot is my "Most-Flown, Least Videoed/Photo'd Plane".

SinBot is a hybrid cross between a Berkeley "Sinbad" glider and a Zaic wing, built from the plans of a "Thermic" series glider.  The wing strongly resembles that of Dave Thornburg's Bird of Time, so it's name of SinBot.  

I made a short video of it flying years ago with a balky Pee Wee, that eventually straightened out and allowed a lot of good flights on the plane.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wQ7XqIIGAo&t=3s

Now, I've built a new engine pod to take one of the metal tanks and a good ole Tee Dee .020.  The plane just needs some patches (it also took the eviction of a good-sized Brown Recluse and her nest) and a receiver to fly again, and I'll have some new footage to post.



Back in the day:



The rework:









So on it goes....