No on the maiden but any time. Sense I took it out and discovered the bad battery pack I have made up a new one. Battery Plus had some AA batteries with the same chemistry as Eneloop, $15.00 for four 2000mAh. Then a storm came in and and we have had wind and rain for several days. The dry lake bed I fly from is flooded again! There was a rodeo in town for several weeks and South Point used our kinda secret field as the over flow RV lot with horse stalls. The rodeo was over Sunday. We went to the South Point yesterday to the theater to see the Hobbit, I drove by our secret field and all the RVs are now gone but they haven't removed the horse stalls yet. Not a cowboy hat in site at the casino so I hope to see the stalls gone this week? If so and the weather changes I will get in the maiden then get the floats on the Swoose and go out to the not so dry lake bed and try the water maiden. I still have a set of waders from my duck hunting days so the water maiden could be a lot of fun.
I didn't know John was in town or I would have went by. He hasn't said but he could have been in the hospital down the street from me. If he comes back for his tests and check ups I would take him over to the cheap prime rib place for dinner if he tells me in advance when he will be here. John probably knows the strip better then I do but the prime rib dinner at Ellis Island isn't bad for the price. No show girls but some good looking tourists. Our old hobby shop has also sold, not near as good as it once was and it has moved locations so I would show him where it moved to.
OH, forgot, that big spinner has a solid 1/4 inch plate in the back instead of the normal little spinner plate like most of them. Nick Ziroli had to add a pound of lead in the nose of his proto type to get the CG. I knew going into the build the plane would be tail heavy so everything is mounted as far forward as it could go, I used the YS 1.10 for power, twice the size of the proto types engine and I still needed almost 2 ounces of lead mounted onto the motor mounts.
I miss measured when making the foam plug for the cowl and you can see I had to cut about three inches off of it. If the little plane is fun to fly I will make a new cowl for it. If it's a slug then what you see is how it will always be. I really tried to keep the aft section as light as I could. Plane #2 is way lighter then this one.