ORIGINAL: acerc
I recently came into a used GP Stearman. Patched it up well enough to fly. Placed a RCGF 20cc on it. Wonderfull plane. When I get caught up on some projects I'll recover it. Here's a video of the maiden, well mine anyway. Not much to see. The trim's did not take much but the engine was really rich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3ER...1&feature=plcp
Hi Robert,
I watched your video. Looked like a nice maiden flight. Without incident, the way I like them. Many of the "Maiden flights" we see on YouTube are far from the first flight. I don't know about you, but I spend ALL of the first flight checking and tweaking the trims, shooting fast landings to see what it'll be like when it's on approach for real, rolling it upside down to see how the balance is, etc. Most of my maidens are spent flying straight ahead. Then, toward the end, I shoot a few more approaches, to get a feel of whether my idle is slow enough to let it settle onto the runway. Oh, and shaking. Did I mention shaking? I've been flying for 35 years, and I STILL shake on my planes' first flights. Not the second. But on the first flight, every time. Somebody else's plane on a first flight? Nope, solid as a rock. Just on my own.
I enjoyed your video.
~ Jim ~[8D]