RE: DF advice
That Regal Eagle was my first DF. Unfortunately, I was never able to get any where near those kinds of numbers on later airframes. I had several that lived only long enough for 1/2 a flight. Actually one of them was about 9/10s of a flight. Crashed on a go around after a botched approach. To give it some perspective, I keep a spreadsheet with all of the planes I have built and owned. I also keep an approximate count of flights made on each airframe. I just looked at it and it says I have about 550 DF flights over the last 15 years. That means that after the first 300 flights on one airframe there are 250 flights on the other 16 airframes combined.