My first Sagitta, 1982. The pics are horrible and out of focus but she was a great looking plane in the air. For the Southern Californians, these were at two locations, Temple Hill and the foothills below Angeles Crest behind Verdugo Hills Hospital and Descanso Gardens. It wasn't a real slope just somewhere I could get to from the house. I still have the fuselage but the wings are long gone. I do have an unstarted one in the closet and I think it will be next winters build, all stock except for a few updated spar techniques. I really miss that plane.

Waiting for maiden. Totally stock, 56oz. Typical "getting back into the hobby" story. My first build in many years. Built her stock just to knock the dust off the building board, have since discovered a handful of changes I wish I'd made. That's ok, after reading about Brian Agnew's latest BoT I just had to get another one. So, I'll get to make all those little fixes, fretting over each decision, walking away and coming back time after time, dry fitting, researching what others have done , and dry fitting again. They say art is more about the process, I guess woodies are too.

Thirty years in the making and it's finally going to fly.
Update, 4/30/13. Took the old girl to Wilson, NC for her first flight. Met several members of the Down East Soaring Society, what a great and helpful bunch of guys. Brady, Martin, Larry, Chris, Kevin, and Dick, thanks guys I had a great time and I'll be back. I feel like I'm leaving someone out, sorry about that. Special thanks to Brady and Martin for helping me get her in the air.

Unfortunately there was only one flight. I built this plane and made the mods nearly 30 years ago and honestly I had little idea what I was doing. As you can see in the pics I straightened out the wing, added flaps and airlerons, 4 S20 servos in the wing, turned the fuse into a pod and boom with the original wood and a fishing rod blank, fully sheeted the top surface of the wing, an S33 for the spoilers, turned the empennage into a V-tail, two S30's to drive the tailplanes, and who knows what other weight gaining stuff. After all that I had never updated my Futaba 7FGK, so I sent that off to be brought up to spec. Wasn't sure it could still be done, but thanks to a search on RCG I found someone to do it......no programming for this old beast. Anyway, up the winch she goes. Floats kinda like a brick, what seemed like a minute or two later I land out. Put the little wench down in a cut corn field with 2 to 3 inch stalks still sticking up just waiting to shred some monokote. Which is what happened, plus 1 damaged rib and a busted control...Continue Reading