John,
WOW! Quotations and all!!!??? HEHE
It's happened to me quite a few times, and I think the issue is with the timer setting when you log in. If it's set at 60 min, let's say your frequenting your favorite threads for 45 min, now you take 20 min to write a lengthy post... when you hit the "POST" button, you were logged out 5 min ago, and all your typing gets dumped. I got into the habit of highlighting my post, and hit "control C" before I hit the "POST" button. Saved my hiney a few times!
About FUSION 360, it seemed really hard at first. What I can tell you is watch all of Lars Christiansen's videos. He is a great teacher. Think of everything we look at all day long, it has height, width, and DEPTH! Once you start thinking that way in FUSION, it all clicks, and it becomes second nature. I'm not THAT good at it but if you have any questions I MIGHT be able to help you out ...wait until you see my PT-19 Ringmaster! All done in FUSION. Another thing that is a great function in FUSION is you can create a Library of "parts" bell cranks, control horns, DuBro hinges, push rod ends, wheels, tanks, even motors, and just import the parts into you NEW design, you don't have to re-invent the wheel every time (cox production motor attached)
Had to read your last post a few times before it soaked into the gray matter! I see that I'm going to have to get my tail wheel in place, a ground plane set, and my prop put in before I can establish my landing length and angle.
Awhile back, I had downloaded "Guru Ted's" article on stunt design. Still trying to absorb it all.
Greg