RC Airplane Building Fun!

About a week ago my uncle who is a bush pilot in Guyana emailed me asking me to build a Cessna 182 model for the Oshkosh Pathfinder event. He was planning on painting it like his real airplane with extreme care. I said that I really wanted to do it. So about a week later the package came in the UPS van right on time. I built it with a lot of screwing and fitting and it took shape quickly. Here is a picture of the airplane I built, but in this picture it is not painted like my uncles airplane. I'll try to show you the picture of the finished product when I am done.

Owl Boxes

Recently I have been working on some Barn Owl boxes. A family of barn owls are known to eat 3,000+ gophers in a 4-month period when they have their chicks.  This would greatly help our lawn and garden. Also a pre-made owl box costs around 150-250 dollars each. So making them ourselves will cost a lot less money. Right now our boxes are in the process of being put together in our barn.

Boards ready to be nailed together.

Work in progress.

A New RC Airplane!

My brother got a Parkzone Archer for his birthday. It is a fast little single engine airplane. Our friend who also had a RC Super Cub came over and it was really exiting. Here are pictures of the Archer and the Super Cub.

Our Friend's                                                                                                Johnny's

RC Fun

A couple weeks ago a friend gave me an RC airplane without any electronics. It is called a baby blender biplane. It is called baby blender because the people that built it built a bigger version that they put a blender in it. They actually said that they blended a smoothy in it. What a weird idea! Anyway, I hope some day that I can get the money to put the needed electronics in it. I am also having fun with my Parkzone T-28 Trojan. Just the other day I was dive bombing my brother, pulled up too steep, and did a hammer-head stall about 20 feet off the ground. Thankfully, I recovered it. My Traxxas Stampede vxl RC car will go 45mph max. One of my favorite things to do is to drive it up a tree and do a flip and land right side up. We had a track for it for a while but my brother and I got tired of weeding it. I also got an RC Chinook helicopter that is really cool. It has two buttons on the controller, one has the letter F and the other has the letter B. What these stand for is forward and backward, which slides a weight inside the Chinook to help it fly better.

Dog Blanket

Recently I made a dog blanket for our neighbors Christmas present. Sewing is not my passion, but it was nice to do something nice for him. It was also nice to see a finished product that I made.

Building Is My Passion

I love to build things of all kinds. I like tinkering with my RC stuff. And our
ATVs keep me busy. RC is a great hobby with lots of fixing, machanical work, etc.
One of my first inventions was a motorized bike. My dad helped me build it. It did not work very well, but oh well. It was a very good experience.

My Invention--motorized bicycle