Brett Buck is Going to the NATS

[Uncle Jimby]

Brett Buck clear coats his new Infinity this afternoon.  First flights are scheduled for Thursday. Watch out Muncie.

[Uncle Jimby]

Think he's serious???  If this one is anything like the last two, it will be a superb airplane.  Good luck Brett.

[Howard Rush]

Looks like he’s forewarned about the turning over with documentation on the bottom. 

[Dan McEntee]

   He must be serious! I wonder what pressure he's using? I have never seen any one lean that far into a spray gun before!!
   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[Peter in Fairfax, VA]

The white tips look very practical.  It's nice to see deflections.

[Brett Buck]

This all presumes I don't "accidentally" run over it with my car, or arrange for a safe to inexplicably fall on it. Had you asked me yesterday morning, I would have been all for it.   

    Brett

[Gerald Arana]

Good on you Brett! Kick butt and take names. I'm pulling for you!

Cheers, Jerry

[Howard Rush]

I just read that there’ll be a “Buck Moon eclipse” July 5.  Those guys may be getting the publicity now, but it’s the Jive Combat Team that has the heavenly bodies.

[Paul Walker]

I am going to have to think twice about shaking your hand now that you have sprayed those nasty chemicals!

[RC Storick]

I will bet it's a super light paint job with no paint coming out of the spray gun

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[Dan McEntee]

   Is this going to be the thread where the trash talking starts???!!!  I just love that shtuff!  Who's going first?
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Brett Buck]

I will bet it's a super light paint job with no paint coming out of the spray gun

   See what you learn in these threads?

    Brett

[Dan McEntee]

I will bet it's a super light paint job with no paint coming out of the spray gun

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    Well, it's like the OP said, he's spraying clear, that's why you can't see it!  I'll bet it's the really expensive, good, really clear stuff too! That's why he's wearing those special glasses so he can see it!
     Type at you later,
      Dan McEntee

[Brett Buck]

    Well, it's like the OP said, he's spraying clear, that's why you can't see it!  I'll bet it's the really expensive, good, really clear stuff too! That's why he's wearing those special glasses so he can see it!
     Type at you later,
      Dan McEntee

   It certainly had nothing at all to do with Uncle Jimby not wanting to get unremovable overspray off his $700 phone. I assure you that *lots* of paint came out of that gun shortly before. It was so bad, Jm couldn't even watch...

     It was indeed shockingly expensive.

    Brett

     

[Steve Fitton]

Hows the wet sanding going?

[Ken Culbertson]

   It certainly had nothing at all to do with Uncle Jimby not wanting to get unremovable overspray off his $700 phone. I assure you that *lots* of paint came out of that gun shortly before. It was so bad, Jm couldn't even watch...

     It was indeed shockingly expensive.

    Brett

   

I have to admit that I have never seen an AMA number on the bottom of a wing.  Beautiful ship - good luck!

Ken

[Randy Powell]

Brett knows what he likes. And his taste is consistent. Gotta give him that.

[Mike Haverly]

I am going to have to think twice about shaking your hand now that you have sprayed those nasty chemicals!

Less chance of contracting that "other" stuff that we are dealing with.  Those chemicals kill everything!

[Peter Nevai]

This all presumes I don't "accidentally" run over it with my car, or arrange for a safe to inexplicably fall on it. Had you asked me yesterday morning, I would have been all for it.   

    Brett

1. A strong draft from the fan blowing to dry the paint dislodges the foam cooler
2. No longer wedged in place the back pack tumbles to the floor
3. More Item cascade down as each item dislodges the next
4. With nothing to prop them against the shelf the ladders fall to the right
5. The box no longer propped up on the shelf Follows everything else to the ground
6. Now that the hefty box is not longer acting as a backstop, all of the items on the top shelf destabilize
7. As the items on the top shelf try to find a new equilibrium the center of gravity of the rubbermaid shelf changes and causes the shelf to topple over crushing the airplane.  LoL I could not resist 

[PJ Rowland]

Can I finally stop holding my breath?

Ive been watching this build for a little while looks better and better each time.

Nats clock is ticking. I hope you commit to flying it and not go back to the old one for the contest.

Hmmm you have Uncle Jimby awfully closeby... great advice being shared no doubt.

[Perry Rose]

Notice the left leg resting against the right wing leading edge. Appearance judges take notice.

[Paul Walker]

     It was indeed shockingly expensive.

    Brett

   
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For you to say that, it MUST be $$$$$^$$$!

See you in Muncie 😁

[Uncle Jimby]

1st flights today.  Pretty much trimmed out by 10:48am.  Would have been sooner except Dennis Nunes (the 2nd member of the West Coast/California NATS team was flying, as well.  Both Brett and Dennis were looking good despite typical Napa air.  Notice how I blacked out their faces to protect the innocent!

[Uncle Jimby]

Still not buffed out.  July 4 will be a busy day.

[Ken Culbertson]

Still not buffed out.  July 4 will be a busy day.

Looks Great.  Somebody wants FAI corners!   To bad it has to be buffed.  I love them Satin.  Aren't these tiny stabs just beautiful.

Ken

[Brett Buck]

For you to say that, it MUST be $$$$$^$$$!

  After paying for my portion of this paint, I had to let my butler's chauffeur go. Times are tough all over.

    Brett

[Paul Walker]

Yes, I can feel your pain in that sentence.

You can stew over it on your drive to Muncie....


Oh wait, your chauffer is driving your plane there. My bad......

[Brett Buck]

Yes, I can feel your pain in that sentence.

You can stew over it on your drive to Muncie....


Oh wait, your chauffer is driving your plane there. My bad......

 Oh no, nothing like that.   I gave her some time off to do a photoshoot in Milan for fashion week.  If nothing else, the airplane won't fit in the back seat of either the Bentley or the Rolls.  I will just toss the airplane, and the airplanes of my entourage, in the back of the G5, ask one of the girls to watch it for me.

      Brett

[Steve Bakac]

Hi Brett
  Just wondering ,it looks like you have full length flaps on this one if I'm no mistaken. If so have  you find any difference in performance between the Old and the new flap sizes?
 Cheers steve

[Ken Culbertson]

Hi Brett
  Just wondering ,it looks like you have full length flaps on this one if I'm no mistaken. If so have  you find any difference in performance between the Old and the new flap sizes?
 Cheers steve

Also wondering - They also appear to be a higher percentage of chord at the tips.

Ken

[Brett Buck]

Also wondering - They also appear to be a higher percentage of chord at the tips.

Ken

The previous airplane also has full-span flaps and the chord is the same on the inboard and 1/16 wider on the outboard. It an interesting optical illusion, probably because the paint pattern is different, with the blue part wider and the extra bold font weight.

Jim says the cornering is much cleaner. It feels about the same as the last two to me, to be honest I forgot a few times that it was a different new airplane and just started driving it into corners like the old one.

I do have a dilemma, this is the first time in decades I have had this many functional airplanes, so I don’t have any place to hang them all up.

Brett

[Craig Beswick]

Don't you have a spare room now the butlers chauffeur is gone?

[Ted Fancher]

I am going to have to think twice about shaking your hand now that you have sprayed those nasty chemicals!

To think; such touchy-feely COVID-19 propinquity revulsion from a guy that's Best Buds and playground playmate with that other guy that's just outed himself as the Queen of the Heavenly Bodies Combat Team!  I don't know, guys...in our modern USA such selectivity with respect to substitutes for the old fashioned hand shake are in questionable taste!!!!

[Ted Fancher]

(snip

I do have a dilemma, this is the first time in decades I have had this many functional airplanes, so I don’t have any place to hang them all up.

Brett

Brett

I have a hangar slot open in my garage ceiling since the demise of the T.P.  I'll trade the space for flights....# to be negotiated.

Ted

p.s. are those tail feathers an extra 10% or so or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

[Brett Buck]

I have a hangar slot open in my garage ceiling since the demise of the T.P.  I'll trade the space for flights....# to be negotiated.

Ted

p.s. are those tail feathers an extra 10% or so or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

  Eyes are playing tricks, within .020" of the other airplane. It's pretty much the same thing, except the paint is not falling off of this one.

    Brett

[Paul Walker]

I can hear all the sanding and buffing , today, all the way up here.
Hope it comes out beautiful!

[Brett Buck]

I can hear all the sanding and buffing , today, all the way up here.
Hope it comes out beautiful!

   You might be hearing it in the Hampton Inn on Monday morning, too, I am getting pretty tired.

    It has a *much* better starting point than the last one, because the paint is mostly much smoother than the old one, and, I was pretty determined to put on a double-dose of clear, just to make sure there is some left 15 years from now when I am *74*, if I make it that far.

     Brett

[Paul Walker]

Btw, happy birthday Brett....

Next year will be the BIG one!

[Tom Luciano]

Btw, happy birthday Brett....

Next year will be the BIG one!

Wow Brett turned 244 today. Are you a Vampire or John Hancock?

[PJ Rowland]

Will beeping and whining mode be sorted by then ? *74?

[Brett Buck]

Will beeping and whining mode be sorted by then ? *74?

     Oh, I expect I will be whining - like "where's the nurse with my pudding?",  "I'm falling and I can't get up", that sort of thing.

     Brett

[Ted Fancher]

     Oh, I expect I will be whining - like "where's the nurse with my pudding?",  "I'm falling and I can't get up", that sort of thing.

     Brett

OMG!  He must'a been a toddler when I first met him!  And here I was recently thinking we were near contemporaries.  See Brett!  That's what "seniority" does to you.  Put it off as long as possible!

Your Advisor,

Tod...Toad...Tub... er, uh;  oh yeah...Ted

[Howard Rush]

   You might be hearing it in the Hampton Inn on Monday morning, too, I am getting pretty tired.

If that’s the paint I think it is, you’re not going to shine it by hand. Get the official PTG rig, as used by the JCT.

[Brett Buck]

If that’s the paint I think it is, you’re not going to shine it by hand. Get the official PTG rig, as used by the JCT.

     It does fine by hand, but I have mostly been using a banjo grinder and a positive mental outlook. Plus, I make no pretense of being as good (morally, physically, or mentally) as either PTG or any member of the Jive Combat Team. I just don't have what it takes.

     Brett

[Derek Barry]

I look forward to shaking your hand, and seeing your unmasked face. Safe travels my friend.

Derek

[Derek Barry]

Oh yeah, I just heard that they are doing a 3rd reboot of Beavis and Butt-Head. 2020 might not be all bad.

Derek

[Howard Rush]

Expect these two to win prizes next week.

[Curare]

     It does fine by hand, but I have mostly been using a banjo grinder and a positive mental outlook. Plus, I make no pretense of being as good (morally, physically, or mentally) as either PTG or any member of the Jive Combat Team. I just don't have what it takes.

     Brett

A banjo grinder? I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?

[Brett Buck]

A banjo grinder? I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?

      Clearly no hillbilly, unlike me. This is me, Sunday afternoon:


   Brett

[Curare]

Oh, and ANGLE GRINDER! riiight.

I was wondering if it had strings!