Hi guys,

Thanks Jeff.

Well I got another 1.5 flights in this morning. The airplane was so hard to slow down I took the advice of a long time pattern guy that I use to fly with and activated flaperons to help dirty up the airfoil and it worked like a charm. The airplane behaved wonderfully with the ailerons dropped. The second flight was aimed more at doing a few maneuvers to see how it actually flew. Other than a cross wind in my back pushing the model out away from me while doing rolls and vertical stuff it seems to fly really well, but I need a calm day to know for sure. Half way through the second flight I did a reverse outside loop. Coming down the back side I was just above a fast idle and as I leveled out inverted and started to roll out and as I eased the throttle up...NOTHING. It just spooled down and quit. I was only about a hundred feet off the deck and I did not have enough airspeed to make a turn and head down wind to set up for an up wind landing, so I let it cruise out a little ways and brought it around, dropped the flaps and made a down wind landing. Not wanting to get the airplane too slow I didn't go out far enough and you guessed it, she was coming in hot. Luckily my local field has a six hundred foot super nice grass runway. I got it on the ground with about one hundred feet left to work with and once it was planted I pushed down elevator. It went down on it's nose and slide to an impressive stop about fifty feet later. At this point I was seriously needing some JD and a couple valium. Try that maneuver with tricycle gear.

Back in the day with the OPS Super 60 the low speed needle had to be perfect or it would flame out in an inverted push at idle. The engine is still slightly rich. It is up on the pipe, but not hard and the low speed needle is close, but also slightly rich. I will be spending some time tomorrow trying to get the needles dialed in to avoid this during the contest as it tends to have a negative impact on one's scores. But, so far the engine has fired on the first flip every single time.

I do have an APC 11x8 that I will balance to night and bring with me, but the airplanes speed and pull are really good right now. Arrows needed speed to roll really well.


Wayne