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Old 10-03-2002 | 07:41 AM
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Stedge2000
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Default Help Wanted for Rolling Take Off

Thanks Bgorham those pics are a great help, I flew for the first time last night . The plane comes as a trike and I had fixed the nose wheel straight ahead (dunno why read it somewhere) . The field has really short grass and is huge but it is covererd in sheeps mess ( sheep were not present at time of flying) So i mowed a large strip with my mower mainly to collect the crap up lol . I ran the plane up and down the runway a few times , then i thought i'll go for it ! I took off with a little elevator and flew straight for about one hundred meteres turned right slowly and went in a continuos large kind or circuit around me flying steady
I took a few circuits then lined it up to land I missed the runway but did not panic i landed eventually steady in the corner it came to a stop kind of tipped forward to the right wing (as its a trike nose down) but ah releif no damage what so ever !!! yipeee . So then I went to take off again ( by the way I had not trimmed the plane at first flight i forgot in the excitment but only had to battle a bit against the plane) as i went down the runway the nosewheel snapped (shocking) and the prop hit the groung luckily it was at the start of the runway and everything was ok but the nose wheel arm had snapped clean just above the coils. I now want to turn it in to a tail dragger like BGHORAM's plane so does anyone know of any good mail order or internt order UK sites as i am itching to go up again!!!!!!!!!

thanks for all the replies keep em comeing !!!!!!!