A lot has happened since my last post of October 2008!

I last had a LT40 and Pulse XT with an evolution .46 engine. Also had an Ultimate biplane I purchased for 20 dollars along with a 1.20 OS Max four stroke I picked up for about 100 dollars, and the plane wasn't completed at that time.

As of last week, the biplane is now complete and flown as my third plane almost every day for the last several days. Here's a video of my first flight:

Ultimate biplane video

It's a lot to handle compared to my other two planes but I'm taking it slow and doing okay. Just doing some loops and rolls so far, pretty high up. It has plenty of power for taking off and moving through the sky quickly.

Also since last year;

I missed the Chili fun fly in December;

The wife had back surgery in April and almost recovered enough to go back to work now;

I built a new i7 pc with 12GB memory, three 1TB hard drives, blu-ray burner, two dvd burners, Windows 7, Vista 64 and Ubuntu operating systems, and a dual monitor 4670 video card with two 23" Asus 1080p monitors - sweet!

Joined weight watchers with the older daughter and lost about 30 so far;

Built a replacement LT40 ARF over the winter from a new arf and had the ailerons reversed ont the pulse in the beginning of the season, requiring a new fuselage after a hard bounce after takeoff.

The club had the June and August fun flies; attended other fun flys in Olean, Hamburg, Macedon, Canandaguia, ( see www.youtube.com/...Continue Reading