My favorite flight!! After building a plane I love sending it off on it's first mission. By the time it flies for the first time, I've gone through it so thoroughly that there's not much left unaccounted for, and since I'm not planning on "wringing it out" on the first flight, it's all pleasure. I've flown a couple of ARFS, and their Maidens were not really as satisfying to me. My most nervous Maiden was when a friend ask me to take his plane up for him. He was my very first "student" and it was an "Aircore" fold and fly plane that turned out to be a bit crooked and quite underpowered.

I'm actually more nervous about losing a plane that I've fallen in love with than a "new relationship" plane!! I just put my Ultrasport 60 through a tree while lining up for an inverted pass and got caught up in an optical illusion, I think because the big ol' tree that we usually fly around was leafless in winter and got me. Nobody's fault but mine, but I loved that plane. Picked up a kit at the swap meet last weekend to replace it!!!

Happy Maiden Flights!