so welcome to the podcast

Josh and Josh on again, which is fantastic.

Thanks for being here, both of you.

Thank you.

Thank you all to you who are listening and watching on iTunes and any other social media or whatever platform you listen to as well as YouTube. Thank you so much. We really appreciate that.

Appreciate all our vinyl listeners as well.

Yes. Keep that needle spinning. I guess the needle doesn't really spin, doesn't it?

No. It stays put. We only have 40 minutes so we can't forget this. Oh, you're telling me. Okay. Well, you know what's funny? Because I ramble on so much, you switch the order on us, so we can actually hit the important stuff first, and then my ramblings will be at the very end. Yes, we're going to do questions. Yes, we're going to do some FTE community questions.

We've had a couple different posts on Facebook, thanks to Megan, yesterday, for different

opportunities for all of you to give us some questions, to ask either Josh's or whoever

else is on the podcast or some just general content in general.

So we're going to go to that first, like Josh said.

So actually, we're going to allow Josh Scott to take it away. My insultry voice. We've got, I don't know, we've got eight or ten or here. So we'll try to hit all of them. And then we'll go into the rest of the content. We'll see what happens. Yeah. All right. Timothy wants to know not to highlight failure, but is there a plane that you just

that you just haven't quite been able to do in regards to design, either too complex to build or bad handling, etc. Shinden. Shinden. No? Shinden. I would have to say it's probably the Shindon. I feel pretty good about it. The Shind, we even had data cards made for the shindon.

We did. And there's a lot of them up in the end. There is, there is like 1,500 data cards made.

And if anyone doesn't know what the shindon is, it started about three years ago.

And it's a Japanese concept fighter that we were fortunate to win the World War II before it came out.

So it was a really innovative thing. Curtis also designed a similar format. I don't know if they took inspiration from that. But we thought, you know, it's I think a community challenge. I said, hey, you know, build this, design it. And it kicked our butts. And we finally got to where it's flying good. But then all of a sudden we found when we did like a build video that one would fly fantastic, the other one wouldn't fly at all. And there was like no rhyme or reason. And we would change things. And just like an eighth of an inch tweak somewhere would change everything. So we gave up onto it until recently. And then we have something called the FT Beta Builders. Yes, beta builders.

That's a group of 13 and 14 guys. And they take designs in some of the key people, Dale Stratton, Joel, Dan Spanholz, and I'm going to forget a whole bunch of other people, just don't hate us. The rest of you. I'm just running off. But the reason I remember Dale Stratton is he took this and Dan said, hey, send us over those Shindon plans.

We want to take a whack out of it. And it proceeded to kick their butts for a while too, and then

they nailed it. And the solution was a airfoiled front canard. And now we just released the

mig three. I'm sure we talked about that later. And we're going to release a Shinden afterwards.

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