Comrades:

I am building my first Boost/Gliders for my NARTrek Silver. I have a Fly Baby from Chas. Russell plans that he posted when I mentioned this earlier this year; I'm almost done. I am also building a Semroc (formerly Centuri) Swift as a backup. Never having done this before, I have questions:

1) Finishing - a clear coat of dope on the wood followed by tissue doped on top? How long do I wait between the coat on the wood and applying the tissue layer? I'm using SIG butyrate dope; it's all I could find. I have various colored tissue from SWMBO's hoard.

2) The Swift has a tube that is supposed to slip fit over the engine hook on the pod. The little tube will slip fit over a BT-20 but not over the ST-7 that came with the kit. Or did I mess up somehow?

3) Seems like the booms and perhaps the elevators are fairly close to the exhaust plume. Does this need to be epoxy coated?

4) Are the engine pods painted?

5) On trimming, how big a left hand turn am I looking for?

Other suggestion?

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