samparfitt
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Joined: 9/1/2002
From: West Chester, OH, USA
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Southwest winds, which for most pilots, is the worst, or least experience direction to take off from plus they were strong, when the runway is East to West and we face North when flying.
I've delayed flying a few times on the P-38: easier to come back again than rebuild!
Tried this morning but she went off the side of the runway and the nose retract came off. I used some of the ply that came with the plane for a fixed gear on making the raised mounts. That ply isn't very good (3 ply); separated in the middle. After looking at the ply, it's about the same as sandwiching in some cardboard! Fortunately, no damage to the plane. Found that the pull/pull wires were a little loose so my nose steering was difficult to do.
When working on the nose gear, I noticed that a wire was between the steering servo and the wing: It wore some of the wire insulation away. I'm glad I saw that before it was severed.
Make sure you check your retracts after each flight: I did a quick turn on my last flight to keep from going off the end of the runway and the oleos now have a little slop (side motion) in them. If the wheels touch the sides of the retract cavity, the SpringAir don't seem to have a lot of strength to overcome a small 'snag'. I've ordered a Robart oleo to check the quality with the oleo's we got from Morris Hobbies.
The 5% nitro on the OS FX .91's only lost about 500 RPM's versus the 15% nitro. That's acceptable.
Especially since it's 4 bucks cheaper per gallon.
I used 28 gallons last year and that adds up to a small ARF warbird! I'll have to try it on my OS FX .46's on the F-82. Got close to 60 flights on her: very easy warbird to fly.
I'm glad I flew the P-38 BEFORE reading the Top Gun article in this month's AMA: 'P-38: one of the most difficult scale planes to fly' (a real confidence builder!). Being ignorant sometimes has it's advantages!!
I'm thinking that those fowler flaps are going to be a real benefit on landing. There's not a lot of wing there being tapered at the wing tips and having those flaps move back and down should help on landings.
Worked on the P-38 this afternoon and, hopefully, tomorrow morning, I'll try again.
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G. Samuel Parfitt
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