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Old 07-02-2005 | 05:52 PM
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i just got back in from the maiden on mine.(I did the test flight without the SFGs) I had to trim some up elevator and left aileron. after that i did some vertical pulls. rolling one way and the the other on the upline is clean and straight i had to correct just slightly after 6th or 7th. KE is effortless and i had no coupling at all. then i swithced to high rates and WOW. she has the blinding roll rate i suspected and some. rolling harriers were effortless but i couldnt get the nose as high as i like after all it was only the first flight and was still getting used to how fast the YS responds since i went to the header pipe.BTW the 110 will pull it vertical out of sight with a 17x4W. aslo as suspeced it did great KE spins and with a little throttle they were so fast it was a blurr. i tied a waterfall once and it did 3 no problem unitll i hit the wrong rudder and made it fall to the side into a KE spin. i tried hovering also. it will hover with minimal rudder corrections but i was still having to deal with my motors new senitiveness to trottle inputs it was hard for me to keep the sweet spot it wanted to climb on me. snap rolls were classic. at this point in the flight i picked up a bad vibration and thought my motor mount was coming loose so i landed. it is a typcal where ever you point it it will go plane. it was by no means floaty on landing but will slow way down without tip stalling. lands to me alot like my goldberg ultimate.

turn out my vibration was the canopy had lost 3 of the 4 bolts holding it on and i also lost 1 cowl bolt.. i am going to try putting a little piece of fuel tubing on them and see if that will keep them from backing out.

that was the only flight i made but i can tell with a little dialing here and there she will be exactly what i was looking for. I also am going to fly it a couple of times with the header on it. i might decide to put the muffler back on.

Next ill try the SFGs