Almost 5 months have past and no new posts ?? Appears this thread is dyin' off.

Got my DLE 55 fired up and did the preliminary adjustments last Thursday. Took her out on Friday for the maiden.

All I can say is WOW ! Don't think I've ever had such a great maiden. Nice straight takeoff, nice scale-like liftoff and climb out. Took just two clicks of up elevator and three clicks of right aileron to get her level. Set the initial CG slightly tail heavy at 7 1/2 inches.

Took her up high and into the wind for a slow speed stall test. Pulled the throttle to idle with almost full up elevator and she just drops her nose and keeps on flying without a hint of dropping a wing. A little throttle gets her flying again. Real nice !

It flies great inverted with just a hint of down elevator.

Came out at 17 pounds 8 ounces with both batteries mounted inside the rear of the fuse just to the rear of the canopy, and 3 ounces of lead added to the tail.

I did two flights and during both landings I could not believe how nice she settles down. Did I really land my Reactor or did the Reactor just make me look good ?

Gonna like this one !

Anybody out there in the peanut gallery still flying theirs ? Ya got's tuh be lovin' it !

Joe M.