Elad,
The key to posting pics and using a digital camera is FINDING it first (grumbles away from keyboard..then comes back to finish this). Not sure where it is at the moment. Sigh. It could be in one of four places. I don't have much organization in this house. I moved here in October and still have many many things still in boxes.
So anyway, yea I don't know about the fuel tank. Mine is 8oz, I flew what I THINK felt like 10 minutes and it was half full. So MAYBE he was right about the 6oz with some throttle management. I had mine on full throttle the other day the whole flight expect when I did a couple of loops. And after 5 minutes I brought it down just to check the fuel and it was half full. I am not a very good judge of this. I would suggest you check more into this before you take a crash course on dead stick landings. But they aren't that bad either. Especially if you have enough real estate. At our airfield, you MUST start a touchdown within about 50 feet or you are going to end up in the tall grass, a car, over a hill etc etc.

Thanks for the congrats on the engine. It's finally somewhat predictable. Which for me is good. Who wants to spend more time playing around on the ground when I can be in the air eh?

As far as that cross country thing goes. I have no idea how they went that far with that much fuel. I heard about stuff like that before but thought I was mistaken in understanding what they were saying. I THEN saw a webpage were this INSANE people take up ultralights with rear facing back seats and fly their planes with their ...planes. Insane. Sounds like a hoot, but still rather insane. I can see it now.

"what you doing"

-"building an ultralight"

"ah sick of the small ones eh?"

-"no I'm building this so I can fly it, then fly my r/c one behind it to a meet where we can fly our rc planes, then I'll return home in the same fashion"

followed by:
:We hearby proclaim Sincraft unfit and of unsound mind to handle his 'estate' and thereby proclaim it property of the state'...



(still sounds fun though)

Anyway, one day soon here, I will fly at half throttle and give you a dead stick report on fuel consumption for the books.

Expect pics soon of my plane in all its full glory. (pending above dead stick experiment doesn't got wrong HA)

S

P.S.- OH btw, building is a good time. You wounldn't have any probs with it. But just fyi, you can buy a ARF for the same price as a kit would cost after covering, glue etc. Amazing, I don't know how they do it. Local hobby store guy swears they are glued cheaply. But I dunno. ARFS were just surfacing and very expensive when I built my Eagle 2. But I think I will build something just for the fun of it. Not to mention, it will be easier to repair what I understand from building it from sticks ya know.

S