Saturday, Gary Morgan hosted his second Hammer Symposium.
People started cutting, gluing and building at about 9 a.m. The fresh park air was spiced with the hot-wax odor of hot glue.
The first Hammer Symposium was a big, fun, loosely organized social event.
This one was smaller and much better built, drawing a mix of veterans from Symposium 1 and newcomers.
Enjoy these pictures from today’s event.
Gary and Jim Egen contributed massive quantities of starch for breakfast.
Paul Panell was the first to get going.
Host Gary Morgan circled the worker bees, providing tips and guidance.
Builders chose their parts from a rainbow gallery of foam.
Gary talks the builders through the process.
A pile of blue foam waits for eager builders.
Crazy Ted Cooper arrives, ready to build and fly.
Looking over the proceedings was Mike Nadler’s Hammer Morph, the Piranha.
Paul moves over to the Cutting Table.
A trio of Hammers awaits the next aerial battle.
Rachel brought her son, Sky, to join the party.
Joe Alves and Paul watch Ted make a cut.
This is where you install the radar system.
George Kulcher shows Skip Santini what he wants.
Gary provides additional guidance.
Sticky Sticky Sticky, too.
Gary makes sure it’s straight.
Gary gets ready to fasten the wing to the fuselage.
Ted protects his hands from glue and dirt with these gloves.
Paul poses with his mostly-assembled Hammer.
David Egen concentrates on his cut.
George helps David align the tail section.
Al Alongi gets prepared for his build.
Skip and Mark Christianson beef up the connections on a 12-volt power supply.
Paul frowns in concentration as he adjusts his motor mount.
Tags:
Airplanes,
Baylands,
Combat,
Flying,
Photos.
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May 17th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Damn that was fast!
Thanks for the excellent coverage Pete. I love doing this even though it’s akin to herding cats…
I think people get a real charge out of creating a plane and flying it the same day. Or at least the idea that it may be possible - today it actually was, I had a mid air with Mike while flying Ted’s Hammer, so we raced back to the bench and built him a new one and flew that late afternoon.
Thanks again for the fine reporting and wonderful pictures Pete!
Gary
June 11th, 2008 at 7:11 am
I still haven’t got my hands on one of these.
I will get one and get beat up by Gary 
or I use to fly around?? we’ll see.
It looks fun
David Melara