D, I fly rubber. During the summer, at a huge site that used to be a Titan missile base; during the winter, at any of several indoor venues. Locally, we fly at Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum - happy to PM you our proposed schedule if you wish. Andrew, I haven't the courage for pistachio. Yes the wheels are home-brew. Find my stuff (including "wheel loom") at hip pocket aeronautics, builder's plan gallery, wordguy. The only SIB I have under way at the moment is a diorama-ish sort of thing of the Canadian corvette HMCS Ville de Quebec ramming U-224. Got discouraged by the water (i have the sense that's a common refrain [sigh])