I flew the Gee Bee a second time today. I made a couple of adjustments to the elevator settings. I tried to mechanically center the trims, added more Throw, I was limiting High Rate at 75%, so this was increased to 100%. Low Rate was increased to 75% and I added 30% expo to soften center stick in pitch. I also installed an APC 17 x 6 prop on the GMS 1.20.

Flight was very nice, I went too far with the clevis adjustments, no biggy. Anyway the flight was very nice, nice big loops, incredible knife edge performance. You'd never think a barrel could generate so much lift. Finally decided to LAND !!!

Setup for the landing with a stabilized approach, chopped power and wheeled the plane on. As I was controlling the pitch attitude duirng rollout, everything looked great, then all of a sudden, it was like someone stepped on the brakes. The plane just stopped and nosed over, flipped over on it's back. OK, so the grass grabbed the wheel pants, or so I thought.

Sat around for awhile and deceided to go for another flight. Again great flight everything went well, then it was time to land. Setup was good, but I decided I was carrying too much speed and decided to go around. Approach #2 was the same deal, so I went around again. On the third approach everything looked good but I was getting past mid-field and still about 3 feet off the ground. So I initiated a go around, it started out OK, then without warning, the nose of the plane suddenly pitch over at 3 feet of altitude and hit hard on the gear. The gear proceeded to exit through the top of the wings, very impressive arrival, complete with a 50 foot debris field. It took about 10 minutes to pick up all the FOD left by my GEE BEE's wing. I suspect I stalled the plane as I was initiating the go around, the wicked fast pitch down occured just as I added a touch of up elevator .

The only damage was to the wings. So I'm going to buy a wing kit and get her back into the air. I'll report back when I fly it again. The next flight should have the pitch trim details worked out. I do plan on avoiding the stall 3 feet above the ground though.

Rich