Category: At the flying field

Building the (old) FLYLINE Great Lakes 2T-1A kit (14)

May 11, 2011 | At the flying field, Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, Building the Great Lakes 2T-1A, Electric RC Scale, Electric scale model airplane, Scale models | 1 comment

Biplanes have struts (most of them do, anyway), and the Great Lakes offers plenty of opportunity to learn how to build them. There are no bracing struts on the tail assembly, but we have a whole collection of them in the landing gear assembly, the usual interplane (outboard) struts, and the cabane struts (which hold [...]

Let’s Go Flying (It’s about time!)

Apr 25, 2011 | At the flying field, Electric RC Scale, Electric scale model airplane, Scale models | 1 comment

From what I have heard, just about all of us have been having less than ideal flying weather recently. Here in the Pacific Northwest we don’t get much snow, and it seldom freezes, but we have more than enough gray, rainy windy weather to share with the rest of the world. Just last Saturday, (the [...]