rsrogers,

I am in Greensboro, apparently 70 miles from everywhere (Charlotte, Raleigh, etc). That is my real NC liscence plate. I was over in Boone this weekend, tooling down the Blue Ridge.
I ran 2 or 2 1/4 inch tires on mine, and flew off a rough grass field with very few problems. I think I only had one prop strike with it with the 11 inch prop.


Be very careful doing the spins, because that caused me to reinvent the plane after it piled in. Was able to take allllllll the plastic off it and rebuilt it about 4-6 oz lighter. Mine ended up about 3 3/4 lbs after that. It will do an amazing inverted flat/knifedge/back to flat spin, but it WILL take quite a bit of altitude to recover. Mine would even climb while spinning inverted if I kept on the sticks fast enough.

Mine is a hangar queen right now, while I try to decide if I want to cut two new formers where they tore out along with the landing gear ply on a harrier landing (at least thats what the landing looked like until the motor flamed out ). I tore out the bottom half of the former where the wing dowels slot, and it took out a bunch of wood with it (no quick thin C/A repair there). I've been too busy flying to repair it, but will get it up again sometime......

Steve

Here's a little pic of it from way back.