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Here are some photos from Jarmo. He has written captions to go with some of them.

	Wing&Tail Frame; This is early at the beginning of this project. Until this point everything went pretty fast. Then I started covering these with 1,5 mm balsa. That took already more time. I wanted all be perfect. I think next project I am smarter than while doing this. This was my very first scratch-built RC airplane project! (Just to clarify this, Jarmo says the sukhoi was his first plane built from plans and that he has built 2 ARF planes before, a trainer and a CAP 232. It looks like a he's done an amazing job.)
	Fuselage frame; I got my wife to take a picture of 'thinking builder' You can see that it's dark outside. That how it is in Sweden in the winter, night fall very quick. That's good, it gives more time to build!
	Cowling; Here you can see cowling with 'cowlflaps' attached to one side, also there is my plug and silicone mould for these cowlflaps (ventilation???) I don't know english word, excuse me. There is also spinner next to cowling, the dark part on spinner is carbon fiber reinforcement.
	Ruddertravel; Here I am using my brain cells to figure out rudder travel, I was worried about that I cannot have enough rudder travel. That's why I made a model of the becoming construction to calculate the degree of travel.
	Shukoi; Wrong spelled name!!! I know. It's in early stage to calculate C.G, all this was waist of the time. At this point my intensions was still to put O.S120 4-stroke to this project. When project was nearly finished I decided to try O.S91 Surpass II instead. It flies ok with O.S91 too. I would like to have more vertical performance, but then it would be unreal.
	Final adjustment; Working on tailplane to set up steering cables. Not far away from the first flight. At this point I was busy to finish this project and get it airborne.
	Britannia Sukhoi26; This is picture just prior the first flight, you can see that I still had 3-blade propell on it. Just a minutes away from dramatic first flight. Anyhow I got Sukhoi home in one piece!
	Cabin; Close picture of cabin and cockpit area. I like this picture
	Sukhoi26; Just another picture of finished SU26, this is also before the first flight. The tail sectioin looks pretty small in this picture, because of 28mm lens at camera.
	Me&MySU26; Here is the builder of this project. This is at one of the evenings at our airfield, at this point I had about 10 flights with this model and I started to feel more confidence to fly this model. Such a beauty to fly. Very sensitive in controls, but real nice. I would recommed this to everybody who would like to challenge.