RE: seagull models t-6 texan ll ARF
Ron.... she is very right about day after day of hot in the summer. I was raised in Michigan and do my very best to go north for a few weeks in the summer.
It sounds like the retracts were given some extra effort. Very few retracts at our field due to its rough condition. I've only built one plane with retracts... a Kwik Fly III, back in the '70s. Last winter I built the Seagull AT-6 and a friend had some really nice heavy duty retracts that would have worked in the plane and offered them free, but there was no practical way to get any forward angle on the struts, which would have been a must on our field.
We have a very nice location on an old land fill but the field itself is poor due to the problems keeping it level.
Hope you get a fine day soon for the maiden... and have good fortune with it.