How To Build Your Own Airplane

I found this video on another blog, The Building Board, and thought it was worth re-posting here. This is about constructing a full scale airplane, but many of the same principles apply to model building.

Ahh, the good ole days

Pre-sanded balsa, what a luxury!

On the Road

Photo by George Benson
Street Sign at Highway 62
Yucca Valley, California
(1991)

No gym? No worries.

Mehmet from Istanbul built this Pemby's Kid for the current Bill Brown Memorial Cookup at Small Flying Arts.

Halloweenpfaltz

It turns out Ed's ancestors were just about as fun loving as he is. Here's his grandfather - who has convinced comrades that he just made it back with the wings of his airplane shot off - about to reveal the joke.