The Forerunner - By Mike Griffin

This is a design called The Forerunner and was originally designed to use a foam wing. I did not want to use a foam wing so I decided to build the plane from scratch using the following modifications. I had someone laser cut a set of ribs for me using only to root and tip ribs as a template. I made the wing 2 1/2" thick which was considerably thicker than the original foam wing. The fusalage I cut as originally designed but I did increase the size of the tail feathers. I covered the wing with Polyspan and the fuselage, stab and rudder are covered with silkspan. There is a total of 8 coats of nitrate dope and thinner on the wing and almost that many on the rest of the plane. The final undercoat was a light coat of Rustoleum grey auto primer which I lightly sanded with 320 grit sandpaper. The color is Rutoleum enamel and the final coat is Rustoleum Crystal Clear enamel which gives it a high shine. From start to finish it took 6 months to build and finish this plane. Many thanks are due to Dave Shad who spent many hours in my gargage helping me out with this project.