With the wheel pants removed, taking off is so much smoother. Once that tail comes up it tracks nice and straight. I down sized the prop to a 13X6 and gained a few hundred RPM, so I now have more speed on take off too, no more slowing down once the nose lifts, it continues to climb. Flew it for 40 minutes or so and still had over a half tank of gas. I even let my friend fly it for a while until his hands got numb. I found that crosswinds landings are nothing special, I landed on one wheel, rolled like that a few feet and gently let the other one down, then got the tail down, and it was a nice landing. The second time around, the winds had calmed to nothing more than a whisper so my next landing was smooth, right on the mains, nice and straight.

What a joy this plane is to fly. Still have to work on CG a bit, its nose heavy so inverted and knife edges are not looking so good, takes a lot of down to stay level, and I cant seem to find the right mix of rudder and aileron for a knife edge, it keeps rolling, one way or the other, so need to play with the radio a bit.