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Why I Still Build Balsa-Wood Boeings

Why I Still Build Balsa-Wood Boeings

There is a particular smell to balsa wood and cyanoacrylate that, for me, is indistinguishable from happiness. Let me try to explain the obsession.

Injection-moulded kits are faster and cleaner. But balsa forgives nothing and remembers everything.

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Traveller, pianist, and lifelong collector of model aircraft. Author of two books, host of far too many events, and a confident speaker on exactly two subjects: airplanes and the roads that lead to them.

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