Originally Posted by
GEEBEER3FLYER
hi Gareth
it was great to have a chat , didn't realise international dialling codes are such a pain though, assuming I can get the electrics set satisfactorily over the next ten sets or so , then install the mains, which I HOPE will be a very easy quick job as I have everything set up in the wing already, all I need to do is do a bench run of the engines, install them and make the gear leg doors, I have 2 weeks of xmas hold coming up and if we get suitable weather as we do sometimes at this time of year ( cold but bright and still) the lightning may well be able to commit aviation in the first week of the new year.....
Very much looking forward to your flight report. Barry got a few more flights on his and while we keep moving the CG back more and more it still runs out of elevator authority when landing unless you come in real fast and flat. This might be just the way it is with a lightning not sure. Maybe flaps are washing it out? After I get the gear mounts fixed and Barry makes it back over to Florida I plan on moving the CG back even more and getting him to take it high and do some stalls and slow flight to try and figure this plane out.
It also does not help this plane has prototype gear so they are a one of set. They wobble real bad when braking at high speed so trying to get it to land slower but it does not like slowing down.
Your work looks fantastic! Very impressed.