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Old 09-12-2006 | 07:23 AM
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DocYates
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Default RE: Christmas in August

I will testify to Dean's post. my new Panther arrived last week. It is considerably lighter than my early production model, which I purchased primed directly from the factory. The detail however remains top notch. The CG as Dean pointed out is correct, at 3.75 inches rear of the LE at the wing root, she is very stable and rotates very easily with 10-15 degrees of flap. The plane is stable in flight. In retrospect my plane was lost to failure to keep the throttle up in a tailwind situation. There was a pretty significant tailwind and I slowed her way down, simply because I was way to confident due to the fact that the first flight had really been a none event up to that point. The fact that I immediately rushed out and purchased another one shows how happy I was with the airframe. I plan on making some of the changes to it that Dean and Terry have shown here on the website the past few weeks.
Tommy