Amazing. Thant's all I can say. Amazing!!

I have a Sportsman Aviation Waco. Takeoff's were a hand full at first, but a bit of practice, and we got it down. The landing gear was a little weak. Broke it in a dead stick, and re-did the area.

Now it is strong. How strong?

Well, I took it out last weekend. I was really out of it. I'd been working really hard on a work project recently, and hadn't been out to the field in 3 weeks.

On my first landing, I dropped the throttle too far, the Waco likes a little throttle on landing, and it dropped to the asphalt at the top of the runway. No damage except a broken prop.

Second flight, and I got greedy, flew to long, and dead sticked it into the bushes. This time, no damage at all.

Third flight, and I hit a clump of grass on the runway on landing. Plane nosed over, but no damage.

Fourth flight. Now this one was a doozy. I had the CG way back practicing flat spins. It entered a nice spin. I could tell it wasn't right though, and tried to pull out. I tried it all, but nothing worked. It spun down down down. Nose down, off to the right of the runway beyond the brush. Everyone told me they were really sorry. We walked over to where it had gone down to pick up the pieces. There was only one. The plane was completely unscathed. No idea how it happened. It was sitting on a patch of asphalt, on it's gear, looking as sharp as could be.

Put six more flights on it without incident that day. It's a fun plane, beautiful in the air, and fits in my Honda Civic without dismantling. Best of all though, it's tough.

Ivarb