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I would like to share my experience of building my MartinWing.

When I first started looking into RC gliders I liked the idea of just buying one
ready-made, because I wanted to get started as soon as possible. When I saw the
Martinwing ad inn the Hang Gliding/Paragliding Magazine, I was curious and
looked up the website. Build my own RC glider, hmmm.

Then I looked at the assembly instructions; that seems like a lot of steps, but
George reassured in his description that it was a relatively quick build.
Eventually I got in touch with George about buying a kit and what all was
involved. I was nervous and reluctant at first about building my Martinwing
because I had never made an aircraft before (not even a model airplane). I was
even tempted to let George build it for me, but he pointed out that if I built
it myself it would be uniquely mine; like a painting or sculpture containing the
soul of the artist.

I decided I wanted the satisfaction and (if it worked) the pride of building it
myself. So after reading through all of the instructions, it seemed very
straight forward and doable. George helped me with any questions I had and even
did a few of the more (seemingly) complicated steps for me to make the building
experience as fun as possible.

I gathered all the recommended materials together (glue, tools etc.) and when my
Martin arrived I put it on the kitchen table with the step-by-step instructions
on my computer, and got started. It was about 9 AM when I started and I was
determined to get as much of it done in one day as I could.

Building my Martin was not as hard as I thought it was going to be. It got to be
more fun as I saw it coming together and motivated me to finish. I took a break
around 3:30 PM for a few hours, and got started on it again around 7pm and had
most of it finished by 10pm; just the glue for the ballast needed to cure (a
total of about 9 hours). I started flying it the following day.