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01-24-2015 | 09:02 AM

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tom.laird

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From: Uphall, Scotland, UNITED KINGDOM

She flies. Following the range test I had 3 flights. With the batteries located at the position shown in previous pictures I required 7 or 8 beeps of up elevator on the first flight, or approximately 1mm. As expected, during the 45 degree up with half roll test the nose came down too quickly thanks to the up-elevator. Rolls and 4-point rolls in both direction were nice, and again as expected the knife edge pulled towards the canopy thanks to the up-elevator, but it was very steady and executed well on the minimum rudder throw. For flights 2 and 3 I moved be battery back 5mm each time and was able to start taking out the up-trim but more adjustment is required. Frozen feet and inbound snow storm stopped play.

Landings were okay. I have Fir trees 150m away and normally have my crosswind leg about 75m out then a rudder turn onto finals but no heroics today so came along the tree line, turned on finals, cut the motor and let it sink then opened the throttle to give a bit of flair for landing. Touch-down to full stop was 10 paces on wet grass. The 3 1/4 wheels definitely helped in these conditions and it did not nose over. With all of today's techo-wizardy has anyone found out how to stop the prop horizontally as per the YS engines?

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