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Well this time of year is what we call the "Building Season" here in the north country but because of our good luck in securing a soccer dome to fly in this winter, it is hard for me to find time to build stuff for next summer. It seems the building time I do get is consumed with getting stuff ready to fly indoors a couple of days a week. The helicopter takes a lot of maintenance time and I even built a foamie from scratch and that took a lot more hours than I had anticipated. I have been so spoiled buying ARF's that I almost forgot what scratch building means. Not that this is a bad thing, and I really do enjoy it, but just that I lost the mental image of scratch building being so time consuming. The problem solving part of scratch building is great and keeps the old brain working, which is the whole idea. The foamie did come out rather well and flies great so the ideas I tried are working so far (just a couple of flights). The helicopter needed a complete rebuild after a big boom-strike did in most of the rotating parts. I did replace the plastic with metal so maybe the next one will not be so destructive. The dome makes going to Florida to fly with Hutch much less of an issue around my house. Sure glad we have it.

	Take a close look at John Ferguson's Extra 330 foamie- the Ailerons are being used as flaps - it really slowed the plane down and looks super cool going slow without dragging it's tail.
	Here I am with my new Extra 330 foamie. It is a Ferguson copy but made out of 2 and 3mm Depron rather than the 6mm the plans call for. It has some engineering changes made to allow for the thinner material while keeping it in one piece in 3D maneuvers. It came in at 8.75 OZ. with a light 480 mah TP battery.
	Another shot of the new Extra 330	The "Barnster" with his new foamie creation. Barney has a great amount of fun designing his own creations. Do not know what he calls this one but it sure does fly nicely.
	Mark deep in concentration doing a hover with his own design foamie- Mark sells the kits for those interested.	I think this is one of the planes from Mark's kit.
	Take a good look at John's prop- it has someone's stab firmly implanted in it.	Guess where John's prop collected the part -hint- look where the left stab should be. The pilot keep flying the plane for the full battery and had no idea his plane was wounded. Foamies don't care.
	Where else would you keep the stab when you put a new battery in your plane (sans stab) and flew just again, just for fun.	OK, is Wolf sleeping or just expressing himself on some deep scientific theory?
	Jim is a smooth Heli pilot and is helping me a lot with my newbie problems.	Bob Bityk with his B-17. Bob is a new member and normally flies his own design stuff. This is an exception.
	John White, our club treasurer just started coming to the dome and seems to enjoy it a lot. We will have John hooked very soon.