Well....................I DUN IT!!!! I am officially a U-CAN-DO-3D pilot! I woke up about an hour before sunrise and got all my stuff together in my truck, one hangar 9 Alpha trainer and wing, one UCD3D and a wing (behind the seat), all my feild equipment and last but not least, my radio. This morning would be the first time I have been to the feild to fly since the last of october.
The first flight of the trainer was to get my nerves calmed down. I flew it approx 30 minutes until the batteries went dead on the alpha.
Next was the UCD. I spen more than 30 min going over the flight check to be sure it was ready to go. Just before I go ahead with the maiden, I take some pics of it running on the stand. I took a couple of test runs on the grass to see how it was tracking and it was doing great. After about four passes on the ground, it was time.Got her lined up and throttled her up and off she went. Before she was off the ground I knew that it would need lots of right aileron trim adjustment so immediatly got it done. Then there was a dire need of up elevator, After that, it was pretty much smooth sailing. But for some reason, I felt real uncomftorble because it seemed REALLY tail heavy. The tail was alway wanting to drop off. I have the CG at about 5-1/2 if I can remember right. Anyways, flew it around real slow and calm and did one touch and go to see how it landede and you guys are right about the feather. Just a big ole pillow! Verry nice slow flight on this thing! I like it! Right after the touch and go, I got hit REAL hard with somthing like a blast of wind but it was super calm, it dipped real hard to the left but I recovered. I did one more round and it started to do it real bad. So I start to come it for final approach and my radio starts beeping at me telling me my battery is at about 8.8 volts! Thats where the hits were coming from, not enought juice! So, got the plane back in one peice and everything went great! I just need to fix the CG so I feel mor comftorble with it.

I have some pix for you guys but I need to resize them. I will post them after I get off of work today.

MAN THAT WAS FUN!!!!!

Joe