With a rainy day forecast, I decided to put my flyboy enthusiasm on hold another day and completed all the mods on the Super Cub LP, including:
1. 
Added red-and-white checkerboard vinyl stickers to distinguish one side of the plane from the other while flying.
Added red-and-white checkerboard vinyl stickers to distinguish one side of the plane from the other while flying.
2. Replaced stock wheels/tires with larger wheels/tires, 2.5" on the front (Maxx EPW250 Light Weight Foam) and 1" on the tail (Dubro). Super glued small metal nuts to front axle, with brass washers as spacers to compensate for smaller width of larger front wheels/tires. Bent wire of rudder axle to accommodate wider rear wheel/tire.
3. Trimmed width of strut skirt, then drilled holes and cut slots in order to secure skirt to strut with small cable ties.
5. Glued popsicle sticks to fuselage underneath battery box lid, drilling holes in sticks to mount battery box lid through sticks to fuselage.
6. Glued popsicle stick on back of wing saddle and marked center line front and back of wing for alignment on wing saddle.
8. Wrote name and contact information on wing and inside fuselage.
Something odd about this blog entry - every time I preview it, the pictures and comments are misaligned. Oh well, not the end of the world, eh?
Later this week, I'll make a few tests, including taxiing on ground and short hops/landings, to better acquaint myself with this plane before taking it up for long flights (and crashing?). Then it's on to GPS, onboard cam and other interesting cargo. Think a wireless Internet router will fly in something like this? Of course it will. But can I keep it airborne for very long? Ha. No. Maybe an RC balloon would better serve as a node in a citizen brigade set of instant Internet connections - iSkyRouter, here we come.
Researching subjects for my next story involves more than reading. Fieldwork rules!
Time for the evening meal. CU later.
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