Put a couple more flights on it and it performed flawlessly again. Now have one hour of flight time on it (actually 54min.). During the reheat of the covering after flying I pulled my first seam today. I don't know if I covered this before but this covering is not like monokote you can not go after it with a maxed out heat gun it will srivel right up. It has to be reset with very spacific do not exceed heat settings, I did not have time to read the info that comes with the covering roll so I'll do that another day. And report on it then.

Today my son joined me at the field and fired up the P-51D to pace the Stuka. He's setting me up for when there are alot of people around. He'll scramble right after I takeoff then dare me to avoid him. Well the gist is he's faster by 20-30mph, can role faster, turn tighter (I can fix that by cranking up the throw), and his vertical is sustainable longer. Sounds like I can expect the gauntlet to be thrown anytime now.

Experience and Gile can beet youth and exuberence regularly but he's getting smarter.

Joe