Tout de suite is French for "straight away," appropriate as I'll be retiring to France soon! Do they teach foreign languages in the American educational system?

I have consulted another builder who has built and flown this model. http://www.rcmf.co.uk/4um/index.php?...;topicseen#new.

The C/G, c of g, or balance point seems to be correct so something else was causing that instability!

Wednesday 25th March has dawned cold but calm in the Old Country so flying is definitely on. I don't need an excuse for showing off one of my models even if I didn't build it!

Wish me luck!



PS. I was buying an ordinary pair of blue overalls from a market stall when I noticed the orange ones going cheap, so I bought those as well. They are beautifully made from very heavy cotton for the British Coal Board but as successive governments have preferred to import coal from poorer countries rather than to employ our own to mine our own coal stocks, they are available cheap and have become my trade mark at the flying field. The hat is an Austalian Akubra. I lived there in the 1970s. I worked on the Australian National Railroad out in the Victoria Desert. You just don't buy an Akubra. It's a bit like buying a new Rolls Royce, you choose the style and colour and send them your hat size in centimetres. In the fullness of time your hat arrives. It keeps my head warm in the winter and it keeps the sun out of my eyes in the summer! It now has a few oil stains. Not the way to treat a $100 hat!

Enough of this sartorial advice, I must get some breakfast and go flying!