This page is intended to be a personal account of the assembly and flight of, well - let us call her Brünnhilde! I had it in mind to use the names of the Walküre sisters, the daughters of Wotan and Erda, for my planes. There are nine such lasses, each more lovely than the last, but their names do present a problem. Do I really want planes named Gerhilde, Helmwige, Waltraute, Schwertleite, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde And Rossweisse? Also, is it ethical to call a Mk IX Spitfire something like Ortlinde? I do not know, but as the pilot of this first creation is to be a healthy Tutonic lass of this ilk, I think we can do no better than to start with Brünnhilde!
The start to all of this is buried in history, buried but not lost, and what I recall of it can be found in my little narrative found elsewhere in this website. Here one may read the story of how I got started in this hobby.
The first plane, and the one to which this detail pertains, is a kit called the Pete 'N' Poke.
This kit arrived on my doorstep on Saturday, July 21, 2001 from a web-mail-order house named Tower Hobbies, and very exciting it all was too. This was followed a week or so later by the engine and radio for the plane. Various other parts arrived around this time including scale wheels, a fuel tank, some plan protector and a few other bits and bobs. Those struts do look a wee delicate! This plane is not a basic trainer, but is a slow flying gentle craft that I hope will do the job of making me tolerably proficient in flying a simple R/C plane.
The first thing to do was to build a workbench for my desktop. I was going to do most of the construction indoors in the room which we call the computer room. I had moved my computer monitor with its associated paraphernalia over to a small desk by the side of my big one, thus freeing up this latter, but I did not want to damage the splendid finish on my desk so a nice workbench was required. This was manufactured out of compound pine with some 1" x 2" braces below, these lined with felt to protect the desk top. The whole was sanded and stained and then covered in two coats of water-based polyurethane.
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