aidan mcatamney

Thanks Adrian. Yes they certainly did and the pilots were all brave men who operated them.

Last night with the P51

Last week I stripped off the old covering of my 13 year old Super Frontier Senior. It was toughlon material the Chinese used at their factory to cover all of their World Models planes. The problem is it delaminates and starts coming away from the wood. When I got it all removed it had left a colour stain behind , so I took a bottle of acetone and some kitchen roll and this removed it nicely prior to recovering. Bearing in mind, this is a very large plane 65 inches long with a wingspan of 80 inches , thankfully the covering on the giant wing is fine. I then cut out templates for the covering and set my iron at 150 degrees centigrade and got going with the all white Oracover. After completion my next job was to remove the blue paint that World Models had used to spray the plastic windows on both sides of the fuselage. I never like this as it made the pilot invisible. So it was out with the acetone again and with a lot of elbow grease it left the windows nice and clear and the pilot figure can now be seen. My final job today before installing the cowl and wheels was to add two trim lines down both sides. In keeping with the original scheme, World Models added three lines, one red , one dark blue and one mid blue. I decided to just make do with one red and one blue. The end result was very pleasing. Also to be different from the original, I'm going to leave the tail plane all white. Very pleased tonight with the outcome. Oracover is not cheap but well worth it in the end as the Super Frontier Senior is such a nice big relaxing plane to fly and I want to hold onto it for another few years if I can.

Good stuff Toto. Hope your son enjoyed Belfast.

Very nice job and well constructed.

Last night flying the Great Planes Piper Cherokee.

I'm just literally in the door from the flying club tonight. Had two good flights with the ever faithful Piper Cherokee as the evening sun slowly descended behind the trees.

You may have to hang up the Aeroscout for now Toto and dust down the Caber instead. Lol

Great stuff Toto and all went well at the wedding. As the old saying goes, "Alls well that ends well." Have a brilliant holiday and enjoy the Aeroscout while you are there. Kind regards Aidan.

The Fez could be a real trend setter Toto. Whenever you take your A Certificate test and you pass with flying colours all being well. When you arrive home later that evening, your wife might be suprised and say, "Toto, how did you manage that"? Your reply might be "Oh my good woman, Just Like That"

Thanks Toto. It's hard to beat the long summer nights. Glad to hear your circlips arrived for the Super Cub wheel. She will be back in the air in a short space of time and talking about hats I have some collection at home but no cowboy hats . So I may just get myself a stetson and pretend I'm flying at Monument Valley where a lot of "The Searchers" was filmed. I can just see John Wayne coming towards me and muttering the words, "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us".

Just leaving the flying field after having two summer evening flights with my fourstroke powered Piper Cherokee. This model is very reminiscent to the full scale Piper Cherokee aircraft that stared in the James Bond film "Goldfinger"

Well done Toto on saving the Super Cub. The Beaver will keep for another day. I'd concentrate solely now on the Cub and take it from there.

Enjoy the steakhouse tonight. That's something great to look forward to. They say music is the spice of life Toto and I would include food in that old saying also

Cheers Toto