Helping a friend build.

[Jay]

Hi Guys
In between my building sessions I been helping a friend get into the hobby. Ed bought a Skyray that I had and I told him if he wanted we could build it at my place. He is a teacher at the local college here so his time was limited to once a week. Took almost 6 month but he finally finished it Saturday. Painted the fuse Sig sky blue and $cote on the wings. He wanted to match the box picture as closely as possible. Using a Fox 35 for power the plane came out at 33.5oz.
We made some changes such as adding a 2 wheel landing gear, a tail wheel, stationary flaps, bigger wingtips, wingtip weight box, balsa tripler, and leadout slider.
The Skyray balances dead on with 3/4oz tip weight. He might add a muffler since he is still new at this.
A joke we have going is, "We are putting a lot of work in a plane that isn't going to last very long." All kidding aside I expect great things from him.

[Jim Kraft]

Looks great Jay; They are pretty rugged built from the kit and at that weight it should just bounce,"I hope". I really like the kit box finish.

[James_Mynes]

It's great to get someone new into control-line flying, and even better to teach 'em how to build their own! Good job!

Can you explain your comment: "He might add a muffler since he is still new at this."

I'm a resistant muffler user, I understand their value in keeping the neighbors happy, but engines without mufflers are much easier to manage, especially for a newbie.

[Randy Ryan]

Looking great Jay!!! Will he be at our meet in August?

[john e. holliday]

Plane looks great.  If your student pays attention he will have no problems flying the plane.   If he has a muffler for the Fox, use it.  They are no harder to start with or without  the muffler.  If he has not flown CL before, remember to short tank it and/or run slightly rich until he gets over the dizzies.

[Jay]

Hi Randy.   I don't think he can fly at your meet.   I  am trying to convince him to join AMA  but at this point he doesn't see the need.

 As for the muffler, being a newby he is funny that way.   Like everything to be like  on the box. 

I only showed him what to do and how to do it.  Hoping  that he takes it home with him.  I totally enjoyed the build together. 

[Paul Taylor]

Skyray is a good start. That's what I started with. It will pop the wing and fuse at the TE one the first figure 9. Ask me how I know.
On the rebuild put a Flite streak wing in it. Andrew gave me the idea. A big improvement.  

[Bootlegger]

 Jay, where did you get the two wheel l/g? Thanks, Gil

[Scott Richlen]

Jay:

Thanks for helping others join our hobby!

Now go and recruit a couple more!   

Scott