Finished my Gee Bee and flew the maiden fight Saturday 05-18-13 It flew great and required no trim adjustments! Second flight got the smoke working, and landed in typical bouncing GeeBee style fashion LOL! Need more practice to get the right speed and throttle for a smoother touch down. A fellow member made a video of the two flights which are seperated by a couple of other planes flying that day, so watch the video for the second flight and landing to see the smoke on! Unfortunately on my third flight, something went wrong, and I lost connection to the receiver, plane stopped responding to my controls, and went straight in. Lucky no one got hurt. I had been very meticulous with everything installed, ranged checked, did everything by the book, but something caused a lockout or brown out. I flew this with a spectrum DX8 transmitter. I turned the plane on again, and everything was still working fine. The next day without charging the battery I checked the radio gear again, more range checking with a t1000 telemetry module hooked up, and all is working fine. I have not figured out what failed yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=bbqWsXLibes&feature=share&<wbr></wbr>list=UUtrGjp6iPi1RIcdtglP1ajQ
You may have to copy and paste this entire link to your browser. I will have to build another one soon because this was a great looking plane, and flew really nice! Pete