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Folks,
The maiden flight of my 1/4 scale DH2 is a success! Here are some photos by Mike (Lucky Dog). I love this aircraft. She flew wonderfully straight the first time up; only required some up elevator trim. Handles like any other lightly loaded WWI biplane, but looks very interesting in the air with this pusher configuration. These pictures were taken at my home field, the Bartholomew County RC Fliers.

Using my sound system, the scale engine sound is really cool, the bass carries pretty well across the air (although more volume would be even better, I'm at maximum voltage & power). I do wish the gun sound was louder; I think because it's higher frequency it just doesn't carry as far.

I went with a Rim Fire 1.60 using 8S 5000mah Lipos. It runs an 18x10 prop which provides plenty of power for scale flight. I set the timer for 10 minutes & see no loss of performance, cruising around at half-throttle ( I'm estimating it's got about 25% of it's juice left at the 10 minute mark).

I took it out this past Tuesday as well for 3 more flights and had a ball. Enjoy the photos. That Lucky Dog is pretty good with a camera. Time to put some scale details on it and take it to Ohio Dawn Patrol next month!
Greg