Reason #1: 99% of the wood parts are pre-cut & it comes with a 1:1 scale plan. This makes selecting the right pieces and assembling them super quick.

Reason #2: Its actually been very enjoyable putting it together & instead of dreading doing the work I've been enthusiastically enjoying it.

JAN 10th 2008

Step 1, put the plan on the table, and follow the manuals instructions. Its very much a case of "put the square pegs in the square holes".

The strength of the plane comes from the center which holds the engine and is made of thick laminated or multi-layer pine & the reinforcement rod in the fuse. This part gets built first.

 JAN 11th 2008

Now that the core is build and dried over night its time to move on to the rest of the fuse. The removable wing addendum indicates this procedure.

JAN 12th 2008

I've had some problems related to engine mount fuel soaking with my OMP Edge 540 3D. I've had to re-epoxy the area twice and add metal plates to stop the wood from crushing more every time the engine gets loose and I re-tighten it. I am hoping that the proper parts and consideration of this issue with the Mojo 60 will result in little or no related problems.

JAN 13th 2008

JAN 14th 2008

JAN 15th

The final steps, add the rib cover strips, add the top wing hatch covering and make a hatch.

I have some Red and white Monocot so I decided to attempt a Canadian flag theme for the Mojo covering.

I downloaded a flag from the internet printed the maple leaf and cut it out of some red monocot. If I cover it properly it should look really good.

Here you can see I used the thrust plate and installed it as per the recommendations of the guys at rcuniverse.com. Cutting it into 4 pieces and placing two on the bottom of the engine mount where the nuts go helps maintain a fairly level surface to attach to and prevents the washers and nuts from eating into the wood mount.

I decided to setup the receiver and battery like my OMP Edge 540-3D profile. One wing will always stay attached and contains the receiver and most of the wires. The wing with the hatch has the battery, and on/off switch. When the wing is installed at the field all there is to do is attached the aileron and battery wires in the hatch opening. Its easy and quick to get going.

Here you can see the servo wires are fed into a hole in the center tube. It helps make the overall look of the plane clean with almost no visible wires anywhere except what you see here.

I think there should be much clearer information about how to mount the gas tank and throttle servo. So again I'm going to try to emulate what I see on the OMP Edge profile. I made a couple of blocks to screw the servo down onto. When I attach the Gas tank, the tie wrap straps will also serve to secure the throttle servo and it should work fine this way.

I liked the recommend idea of feeding the antenna through the wing. I did not install a tube for it inside the wing I instead poked the hole for it through the wing using a very small but rigid brass tube. I was careful to make sure the tube traveled through the openings in the ribs and only poked through balsa in two places where necissary. I finished it by using some wire shrink and a piece of scotch tape.

The plane is now ready to fly, I will take a couple of final photos which include the gas tank and new wingow. I didnt like to one you see here so I removed it an added a much larger one. I will fly this plane when the snow is gone from the runway, as I do not have skis that fit to fly on snow.