Hi all,
Thanks for the nice comments on the project. Video will be rolling on the maiden flight.

I'm shooting for this spring for the first flight. Perhaps it will come unexpectedly like it did in 1955 when Tony LeVier (Lockheed's chief test pilot) became airborne at 70 knots while doing high speed taxi tests.

I'm still not decided on the final paint scheme. Black or the very dark blue (which it really was), reached about 160^ in the sun on my test panel. The early aluminum finish caused some UFO reports from airliners when they saw the sun reflected off of it thousands of feet above.

Jack