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Old 08-24-2004 | 04:00 PM
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rwlewis
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From: Tomball, TX
Default RE: Chip Hyde's Cap-X - Building & Flying

I'm still here.... Congrats on the maidden. Glad to see another Cap-X flying. I'm still impressed with mine every time I take it out.

I CA'd my stripes....after I lost one..[&o]. I've also put a 2" wide strip of clear ultracote over the LE seam in the blue. Mine has lifted twice in flight, and it gets very squirrely with the air being disturbed over one wing and not the other.

I've complained to Chip a couple of times, haven't really asked for a some sort of compensation from him (like a new plane..), just made me feel better to complain. In one of his replies, he says that they've made changes that are supposed to fix the problem in newer planes.

I've got enough flights on mine now that I'm not going to sweat over it. I'll just replace the stripes w/ultracote if they all come off.

Richard