Hi Hank. Sorry  I'm not posting anything right now. The Cub is a dyna flite kit I kind of bashed to make more scale. There used to be a flying school based at Ryan field named Snoopy's flying school. When I lived in Tucson I knew the son of the man that owned the school. When I started the build I decided I would use the logo from the school on the plane. I started the cub about a year before moving. Flash forward 11 years and the cub is finally nearing completion.

I have highly modified this kit over the years to increase the scale appearance. I must tell you I moved to Phoenix in 2005 at the height of the housing orgy. I wanted a house that was done or needed minimal upgrades so I could continue the building/flying lifestyle I had in Tucson. Didn't happen. Spent the majority of the last ten years on a gut job remodel. I'm still not done but some of that is due to Obamanomics and the current state of the economy. Little by little I have managed to get a workshop put together and get some work done on the planes. But I am far from back to where I was. Enough crying.

I am proud of what I have managed to get done even if it is slower than Don Rice's Corsair As this is a fun fly plane ( I can't imagine the Dyna flite would ever be competition worthy) and a Snoopy's Flying School aircraft, Snoopy had to be the pilot and he had to have a student...

The student being a little fellow needed to sit on a couple books to see out

anyway, got to have a little fun. One day soon (6 months?) she will fly

Hi Hank. I have been following the creamsicle and thoroughly enjoying it. A group of us in TRCC always said if you don't have a popsicle stick in the build it won't fly. Yours should fly great.

The cub is 1/4 scale, 104in wingspan I think. The phone books are balsa blocks. I covered them with scanned and reduced images I printed out using my computer. Used a pencil and yellow hi-lighter to indicate the pages. Thought they turned out pretty good for a bumkin.

Scale has always been my main interest in modeling. when I left Tucson I gave away all  of my sport planes to force myself to go scale. I discovered RCSB in Tucson but scale competition is not very big there. Since moving, I re-discovered RCSB and have been learning everything I can from everyone here. Dad always said "son it's not necessary for you to make every mistake". Now I only make most of them. Some of the things people do here will always be beyond my capabilities but my building has come up several notches as a result of the inspiration and knowledge gained here. Everything I do now is to increase my abilities and to build better and better scale models that fly well. I used to be a pretty fair pilot, I've not flown much since moving but am starting to get back into it. I want to compete but I have a ways to go yet to compete successfully. The PT-19 may be the first competition level (lower level) model for me. I am still considering...

The PT-19 was given to me by Chuck Brooks (know him?) a very good friend of mine. It is extremely heavy and scale in outline only right now. Nobody seems to know what if any kit it is from. It needs to be rebuilt and recovered before it is flyable. My challenges are: 1- reduce the overall weight  2- add in scale parts and detail to attain a competition level model  3- strengthen and lighten the wing adding flaps  4- design and add wing fillets to the fuse  5- design and build a scale flying tail to replace the slab surfaces   6- finish and weather.

Everything on that list is designed to teach me something for a later build I have planned. I will start a thread when I start on the PT as I want all the input I can get from the experts on this site. While it may not give me an Ivy League education I may get  a community college level one from this plane. I can build on that.

I think I have the next several years laid out. For fun I want to finish the cub, then I have a pacific aeromodels Gee Bee Y ARF I will put together. I think I will add scale to that one only after I have flown it for awhile. Sometimes you just have to go fly.