Hi jet-freaks,
Added some 3 more flight to my Firebird`s flight log !
Everything went just perfect as usual and most of all, my newly installed smoke system is doing its job as expected !
Of course, at 200mph+, the smoketrail is getting thinner, but it is still drawing a nicely visible line !
Firebird pretty easily reached 325mph (524kmh)according weatronic GPS (winds were very calm last saturday) and I am positively surprised that
the bird is holding knife edge with just about 3mm stick deflection on rudder and keeps its flight path very straight without any coupling to the other axises !
Photographer is still working on some nice inflight shots since he just missed Firebird all the time when coming through in clean configuration ? !
As stated already earlier about this plane, it eats up a lot of airspace and it is a must for my flights to have at least half a mile of flat terrain around me (including vertical ! )
Hope to add a video with some smoke trails soon
Regards from Switzerland
Hans