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Old 10-22-2007 | 12:11 AM
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mesaflyer
 
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Last weekend I maidened my VQ Warbirds P-51D. Has a Saito 82. My third plane and first sport/scale warbird. Read a lot of posts about not too much throttle too fast, be prepared for some right rudder, etc. So, everything went good on the take off, was moving pretty fast down the runway and started lifting off. As soon as the wheels were off the ground the plane banked hard left and started to nose in. I was able to correct, and get some altitude, but was rolling left real bad. So much so that I had to have my friend come over and input some right aileron trim. I then got the wheels up and that helped bring the plane to level. Finally got her pretty well trimmed out, flew around for a few minutes, and landed. Flying straight and level my ailerons are about 1/16 to 1/8" up on the left wing and down on the right wing. The plane flew great after that, but something is out of wack. Does anybody have any ideas for me to check? Is it possible that the plane has something twisted (not the pilot[X(]) that I can check?
Thanks,
Pete