So, I’ve decided to sell my R/C truck. Primarily for two reasons. One, to recoup some of the money I’ve got into it to offset what I’m spending on my second airplane. Two, I don’t really have any close areas that are good to run it, so it mainly sits around doing nothing.

That said, I’ve got a good start on my second airplane. My first was a prebuilt kit just to get me flying so I could learn on something that’s easy to learn on, etc. My second is one that I’m building to really *enjoy* flying, and to enjoy building, and to be proud of. It’s a 1/7th scale P-51 Mustang (OK, I know everybody and their brother has a P-51, but the reason I’m building it is that parts are plentiful and it’s easy to customize for that reason, kinda like the only reason to buy a chevy hot rod is because a 350 engine costs all of about $6 at Advanced Auto).

I actually want to start researching what the rules and judgement guidelines for the scale model class area at the AMA (not the medical AMA, the R/C airplane AMA) Nationals. If the competition is about how well you can build the model, how true you can be to life, and how well it works (versus flat out flying ability since I’m so new), then I wouldn’t mind entering it with a model some time. With that in mind, I’m taking a lot of care to get detail items on my plane that most people skip. Lots of extra manual labor ahead for that reason.

Oh, and 7 channels on my remote isn’t near enough for what I want to do. If I actually put all the controls in there that I want to, gonna have to double up some channels. You can do things like set it so that one thing turns off at 20%, the other at 15%, and put them both on the same servo and use the trim function on that channel to control whether one or both turn off, that sort of thing.

Oh well, enough for tonight. I built for about 2 hours, getting sleepy.