Originally Posted by FlyerInOKC

Congratulations on a successful first flight! Your account reminds me of something Dr. Hawkins once told me. He said when you read an article in an R/C magazine and the author talks about how his new build/design/ARF flew perfectly on the maiden, know he is lying between his teeth. Dr. Hawkins had a number of designs published here and in the UK and he commented every one of them had varying degrees of adventure (read in terror) on the maiden flight. He believed every maiden of a new airplane would present its own set of issues to be ironed out in future flights. Some would be easily remedy in one or two flights, others would take a number of flights. As you fine tune a new airplane the flying gets smoother and easier. I haven't seen anything to dissuade me he wasn't right.

Mike