Well it happened. The first flight did not go well.

I set up the motor up before hand, YS110. It seemed to have a reliable tick over. So I fitted the cowl and off to the site to go and fly. Then, at the site, I couldn’t get a good idle. Seems that it was too rich and then too lean on the idle mixture. Then it looks like the engine was getting hot. So off came the cowl.

The idle seemed better. So off we went to commit the plane to the sky. I flow it around pattern style for 8 mins or so to get some running on the motor a little pitching to the canopy in knife edge, but I was doing this cross wind. Nice knife-edge loops etc.

I set the high-speed needle ¼ to ½ turn rich to keep the motor cool. Then I decided to land. So I gave myself loads of space, as I had not slowed the plane down yet, and my intension was to over shoot and come round. So I flow the patch at about 10 foot and opened the throttle to come round and the engine quit. So I had no option but to land in the long grass. Unfortunately it had the effect of stopping the plane arrester wire style and ripped off the U/C. This wouldn’t be so bad but the spats went though the wing skin, bottom and top. I will replace the UC bearer for something a little stronger, now it has been removed.

It will fix easily but the wing looks like it a sandwich of 1/16 top and bottom with a foam core of about 1/8”. So does any body have any experience of fixing this type of wing? If I aphalatic resin and balsa will this effect the strength of the wing?

I have decided to run the standard silencer with no cowling until the motor is fully broken in.

Over all though what a machine. Very solid and smooth.

Kris