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Old 07-17-2006 | 12:26 PM
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Good & Bad News:

Got in one flight today -- one touch and go and one regular landing -- the forward cg makes the plane completely different when landing -- oddly enough, not that much difference to me in the air. Strange. It settled right in on a rather steep and slightly fast glide path (I think I got it just a bit too forward) and settled nicely down on the the runway.

Bad: I discovered that I have cracked the landing gear -- I am sure this is from the bounce bounce bounce landing from the other day, and the gear flex enough to break the wooden prop I am using. NUTS! Now I have a couple more props ordered and should make it here by the weekend, but maybe someone around here has a 16X6, I don't know -- My engine is so perfect now, I don't want to change propellers at all. Does anyone know-- I read in the Extra 260 thread that that gear "delaminated" and the fix was just some thin CA glue into the cracks -- can I just do that? or do I have to get new landing gear? It has hairline looking cracks at the bends which allow the gear to flex just a bit too much