jclittle
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Joined: 11/15/2002
From: Suwanee,
GA, USA
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Well the maiden flight is in the books; sorry to say that I bagged out of doing it and had a friend at the GA Jets club do it for me (thanks Mike). Perhaps a good thing, as I had the elevator incidence set to 0 degrees and once airborne he had to max out the up trim on the 10X. So the first few minutes of the flight were a little hairy to say the least. Even with the trim maxed out, he still needed to hold just a bit of up in her throughout the flight and landing. I balanced it right at the 180mm position that SM recommended and that seemed to be just right. Only one click of aileron was needed. The trim issue combined with a strong late afternoon sun kept the flight to about 5 minutes of high circles and two landing attempts. The landing was a bit hot, and as I had the brakes tied to down elevator he let it go into the grass, both the main gear blocks broke loose but it’s an easy fix. Looking at the blocks it was easy to see why they broke so easily, there was almost no glue holding them in place. A good bit of Hysol on the gear blocks, resetting the center point on the elevator and changing the brakes to one of the sliders will have the Hawk ready for flight again in a few days. The only other note, the scheme shows up well in the air but with the Eagle it gets away quick and it not a large plane by any means.
< Message edited by jclittle -- 6/25/2008 4:45:55 PM >
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