I needed an April flight, so on Sunday the TX and the on-board 1500 mAh Li-Po RX pack was charged and we were off to the races!

It was not too windy although a bit chilly at 45F. The OS .61 is broken in now so some full throttle stuff was in order. I tried a few different props and finally settled for the 12 x 5 APC. This got me up high enough quickly enogh for some ridiculous spins....

I put the rudder on max-rate and the elevator and ailerons on low rate. After entering the spin the throttle was brought up to full power. The elevator moved to full down and the ailerons slowly reversed. The spin was a sight to behold. You could take your eyes of the plane for quite a while to give your neck a rest. It just kept in a very flat spin and slowly descended. The sound of the engine told you where it was at all times.

I tried lining up for a runway-spin-bounce several times but the breeze drifted the plane over the "tall-stuff" each time. So I settled for some Biplane-crow dives from a great height. The Panic needed some auto-up-trim when the crow was deployed. Once that was dialed you could dive stright towards the runway and pull out at about 6-8' and land in less than a few feet.

A more conventional flap that I use is top ailerons down only. This lets you "walk-the-dog" down the runway. Very slow flight with the nose help up. I

I don't get a very axial roll - might need some throw tweaking on the four aileron servos. It does do a great very-slow-roll however.

Spent a lot of time doing KE loops and pin-wheels. It needs some down elevator when the big rudder is applied. Might use an exponential mix instead of the std code 66 [JR speak]

I am looking for some old pictures of our USA Panics when we threw Enya 120R's etc on the front.

Back to the grind.

Regards,

Eric.