Whoa, slow down there old paint! I've been grounded for the past 23 years and now in a wheelchair I'm getting back into this game to teach youngsters to fly. You newq pilots, do not go fly your Wing Dragon/Begin-Air 4 channels, or 3 for that matter without going to nitroplanes.com and pick up one of the two, very inexpensive, RC Simulators they sell there. I caught the 6 channel on sale for $13.00 and with UPS it cost me $25.06.

Mine came without software but that is easily fixed. For Linux systems there is the free crrcsim and for windoze users there is FMSsim 2.0 Alpha 8.5. Running Ubuntu/Linux, I run both programs. For the FMS I downloaded the free Oracle Virtual Box and installed Win XP. The Begin-AQir is found on Gary Gunners web site, linked from the FMS site, also run by my German friend and on his web site, presented in both German and English you can find the Begin-Air, many fighter, bomber and other models as well as other airfields and links to even more.

You can smack the Begin-Air over and over without loosing a single dime... until you get it right.

Then and I scream just like the DI I used to be, only then, find some freak like myself to go to a small field with knee high or just lower grass. Inspect your aircraft very slowly and then turn on the radios. Forget the Motor but check every other moving part for movement and direction orientation. Your Wing Dragon od Begin-Air has a built in 0.078 degree of negative angle and you will be correct, balance being correct, with perfectly flat Elevator when compared to the Horizontal Stabelizer. For the dead stick tests you are preparing to complete, the Rudder can also be dead neutral.

Make certain the aircraft is fully prepared for flight, this is super critical. Get your old fossil to run two steps and to launch your airplane with a flat running launch over the tall grass. This launch is to see where your aircraft wants to go. If it pulls up and stalls, without you touching the controls, give the Elevator Trim Tab (that strange and useless little slide switch beside the Right Stick) 2 clicks forward. Do the reverse trim for a dive. After the first adjustment, use one click at a time.

Now, you are better off but still in trouble. By this time the old pilot is ready to tie you to the tail of his kite but he will calm down and stop spitting ten penny nails when the ship is finally trimmed r in trim. At this point you have noted the aircraft is twisting to the left or to the right. Let's say it's twisting left, give the bottom rightt Trim tab one click to the right and retest. When you have a nice smooth glide into the tops of the grass and the old fossil is pouring fountains of sweat and gasping for his last breath, you are almost ready for you maiden flight.

Now go to the local field or to a nice size park. If you have the room for a take off set the ship on the ground and turn your transmitter on. Now move the sticks and after you notice the surfaces do not move, pick the ship up and plug the battery in. If you have not velcroed the battery in place, go home!

Now that the battery will not move and ruin your Center of Gravity, make sure the CG is 1/4 to 1/3 of the wing from the leading edge. When you get back to the field or park give the lower left trim tab 2 clicks to the left for motor torque. Your first three flights should be no more than twelve inches off the ground. Get it into the air with full throttle and kill the motor and land. Now, God bless and happy landings from an old, one of the very first, Killer Spade. If I can help, look up the 229th AHB home page at Yahoo Groups and post a message to Killer Spade 806 CE, 1969.

Bill Taylor
Killer Spade 806 CE
1969
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