Building a Hawk Sport Steve Bensinger is at it again. Here's a quick look at how things are going. Updated 7/31/03. Click a pic to see a larger version.

5/23/03: Unloading the plane at home. 5/23: The entire airframe. 5/23: Box 1. 5/23: Box 2. 5/24: Part is parts, inventoried and organized. 5/25: Boom tube on the stands, ready to begin. 5/25: Cable exit holes at the tail. 5/25: Stick mixer attachment holes. 5/25: Aileron cable pass-throughs. 5/26: Russ Hauser cleaning up and taping the control surface gussets (with a broken finger!) 5/26-27: Painting the boom tube. 5/27: Prepping and painting steel and unanodized aluminum parts. 5/28: Boom tube painted and cables run. 5/28: Iceboat? 5/28: Test fitting vertical fin and tailwheel. 5/28: Control horns installed on ailerons and rudder. 5/29: Installing the verticals and spar carry-throughs. 5/30: Squaring the nose. 6/1: Installing the cross-over tubes. 6/1: Connecting the rear cables. 6/1: Installing the tailwheel. 6/2: The seat installed. 6/3: "Spider" assembly installed. 6/5: Control mixer installed. 6/5: Rudder pedals and heel rests installed. 6/6: Pausing for a glamour shot. 6/7: Rigging the front cables. 6/7: Connecting up the rudder and tailwheel. 6/8: Finishing up the front cables. 6/9: Flap mechanism. 6/10: Horizontal, vertical stabilizers, rudder, and elevator connected. 6/10: Tail done. 6/11: Testing the tail folding mechanism. 6/12: The streamline cockpit enclosure - testing with a sheet. 6/13: Hanging the wings. 6/16: Struts installed. 6/19: Flaps connected. 6/21: Ailerons connected. 6/21: Flaps down. 6/26: Engine mounted. 6/28: Fuel system installed. 6/29: Taped spar tapers. 6/29: Friend Pancho tries out the twin 20mm cannons. Great for competition! 7/1: The sails arrive! 7/4: Posing naked after painting cabin area flat black. 7/5: First six control surfaces covered. 7/6: Cabin cover fitted. 7/7: How d'ya get in? 7/10: Hard doors finished and nosepiece fitted. 7/10: Streamline rear enclosure finished. 7/13: The flap pushrods would've exited through the rear window. 7/13: Plates I made to raise the flap torque tube. 7/13: Wings finished, ailerons and flaps working. 7/15: The tail is done. 7/16: Stratomaster Extreme instrument is installed. 7/17: In-air adjustable IvoProp is installed. 7/21: Rollout! 7/21: Wings installed. 7/23/03: First Crowhop! 7/23: First full flight - takeoff, exactly two months from delivery. 7/23: Climbout. The only tweaking it needed was a trim tab on the elevator. 7/27: Finished with wheelpants. 7/27: With big brother. 7/27: Time to take it apart and ship it to the World Microlight Championships. Click "Shipping to England" at the top of the page to see the packing process.