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Old 10-08-2005 | 11:15 PM
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Thanks guys.

Damon....
I havn't added anything else yet with work and everything. Today was the first time I have put it in the air since Labor Day. About 20 flights on it so far and I'm batting around .500 with the landings. The bad ones aren't violent damaging crashes, it just gets to the end of the roll out and the tail passes the engine. Allot of them now simply end up on the nose so I'm getting better. It's just frustrating knowing I have done successful ones, but I havn't broken a prop yet.

The real problem is with the wheel pants. The 4th or 5th flight I had one rip off breaking it pretty bad. I took the other one off and I have flown it like that since then. I know, it just isn't right for a GB not to have them but I'm working on it.

Flying it requires all your concentration, that's what makes it so fun. Not that it's hard to fly, but it goes where it is pointed and quickly. With the top looking exactly like the bottom it can get out of hand pretty fast, fortunaltely it won't really stall, it just drops the nose a bit and starts flying again. Approaches are long and low. It dosen't want to come down. Tip stalls are no worry either. Just land with a little speed and learn to work the elevator on the roll out.