First thing I did was to put the trim settings into the memory of my stylus and readied her and taxied out to fly for the its second flight. With the new Dubro #614 EZ adjustalbe axles it taxied much more like I expected. Now to make those #614's fit I had to drill them out to fit the strut, that required removing most of the paint on the end of the strut it is going on. The paint was kind of thick on mine and I wanted a good fit to avoid the same problem again.

My plan for these flight was to get to know the plane, in the first flight I was so buisy getting through the rudimentary stuff I want to know (is it truely trimmed, does it do any funny stuff, it usually takes me ten flights to get used to an airplane, comfortable). Once turned into the wind, actually I was to ROG due west and the wind was coming from the NNW, I advanced the throttle slowly untill the nose started to swing left and corrected. The objective was to track right down the center and let it lift off its self and it did. A nice gentile break from the ground and climbout, with nothing out of the ordinary. Except maybe the wind which had been calmn to 25mph all day, well if you only get one or two days a week to fly you take what you can get. I was hands off to the first turn. So I did some low passes so Bill Tozer could take some pic's for you guys then on one of the pullouts I noticed that famous Super Tigre pinging (means the engine is over heating. Down came the flaps and we landed. Well, OK I arived! Thats a term I used on Jason for meny years when his landing were not gentile. I flaired to high and stalled it to high and dropped it on the mains from about 6 or 8 in above the runway.

Reajusted the engine, four clicks richer. Again the ROG was picture perfict. This time I started to use aileron into the wind as I lifted off and it handled it very well, alowing a very slight bank into the wind.

The aileron responce is slow but acceptable and the flaps when deployed at half throttle pull the nose towards the wheels. Everything is as I expect from a warbird.

Wrinkles are kind of a goes with the teritory thing with iron on coverings. I have noticed that if after every one of the first four flying sessions I go after them with a heat gun there amount and size decreases a great deal. With this plane one has to be very carful becuse the covering has a to hot setting. If you get the gun to close or leave it to long the covering will shrival up. It does not tear, melt or get heat holes. It just srivals and usually I can smoth them out with a proper temperature iron. But just like with other coverings the second time out had much fewer and smaller wrinkles. So acouple more times and all that should be locked in.

Pic's
The best of the low pass pic's. I know the prop looks stopped that is what happend when shooting at fast shutter speeds.

Joe