RocketRob
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Joined: 12/27/2002
From: San Francisco,
CA, USA
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It was a great day and well worth the drive, Got home last night exhausted, sunburnt, and a familiar ringing in my ears.
I was witness to some incredible flying, pristine planes and a great group.
The times through the trap ranged between 186 to 194mph and it was mentioned 200 was hit earlier in the morning before I arrived.
I did not get any times on mine as both flights were sorting out - I had never even started the engine in the airframe. First flight was more than a bit scary as I carried way to much rudder and starting veering right and once airborn neutralized the rudder to soon and almost snapped. It was running pretty good but inflight the spring which retains the needle was loose from all the R&R cycles and allowed the needle to close which gave me an early flameout. The landing was just as much a white nuckler, was high over the approach end and it was suggested I do a 360 but knowing I had about 3,000 ft of runway left decided to land long as oposed to risking a lowspeed turning snap. Hey what can I say, made sense to my microcontroller during the nanosecond of data process. So It flew past us about 15' and just kept on flying down the runway, just kept on flying and flying and as it became a red spec started to settle down. Ending up coasting off runway into the fine dirt/dust on the edges luckily missing the runway light 
Flight 2 after changing the tip ground prop and adding some tension to the needle spring and cleaning all the dust/castor mix off the airframe was much better. Take off with a very safe rich setting and very little rudder was reletively a non event. Spent most of the flight trimming it out, and the landing worked out much better - well what do you expect with Rusty calling  She covers ground very well 
I've got a few things to sort out, but the plane flys well and I would highly recomend this airframe
Good Luck at Whittier!
< Message edited by RocketRob -- 9/22/2008 1:59:02 PM >
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RE: Miss Ashley - 
My standard response "I'll talk when I'm down". 
Need to keep it small as the secret testing area 51 is on private property. If you are still up shoot me a PM just 
