After a hiatus of 3 weeks from flight lessons, I finally got up today. The last time I flew I crashed my ARF trainer. Many years ago I built from a kit the exact same trainer, so I have been getting it ready to fly - there was a fair amount of "hangar" damage. My instructor took it up to trim it out and it wouldn't trim! Turned out one of the aileron pushrods had come loose. Fixed that, then went back up, plane trimmed out nicely, but the engine, an OS 40 LA, was running poorly and eventually quit. After the dead-stick landing I could hear the clunk rolling around in the fuel tank. Pulled out the tank, and the clunk had broken off from the brass tubing in the middle! A little field ingenuity and we had that fixed (I will be replacing that before I fly again) and we went back up. I practiced landing approaches and finally had my first landing! Yeah Me! I got in about 20 or so touch and go's over the next couple of tanks of fuel. This was my fourth time out and the last two were disasters (see Crash forum "First Crash") But today was an excellent day, eventually.