Today I tried out a new Cermark Bobcat I had NIB for a while. My first inverted engine. I have read that it might be easier to start it with the plane inverted. So, I flip it and start to fill the tank. Doh! Fuel floods out of the muffler all over my flight box and panels. Engine full of fuel. Pull glow plug and drain engine, flip and spray fuel out of carb like a whale. Turn plane over, fill tank. Flip plane. Try to start. Engine hydro-locks in a second. Repeat engine draining, spraying fiasco about 4 times. Burn huge ugly ring out of fuel slippery spinner, curse under breath and remove (I'm at an Elementary school playground and lots of kids are real interested.) Say forget it and start engine with plane upright. No hassle at all, except reaching between a nose wheel and a prop for the glow starter is not a comfortable idea.
Broke in engine, flew plane, and find the little TT 42 has an amazing amount of guts. A soccer field is really small for a glow plane. Really, really small. It did make the plane seem ungodly fast, though.
Note to self: Vert. stab goes up- who cares which way engine points.
Oh, and a kid said you could hear the plane way up in the front of the neighborhood as it flew, (he said, "...especially when you looped and stuff!") I thought it was quiet, but it drew kids and families like a Pied Piper. I expected the cops, and decided one flight was enough. Of course, if people allow those gosh-awful leaf blowers how on earth could this tiny little noise bother them??