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Old 02-02-2008 | 09:45 PM
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Well guys....the only thing I can say about the Baby Edge is SWEEEEET!! Today turned out to be a perfect day for the maiden flight, temperature of 65 degrees, light and variable winds, and humidity of 40%.

The engine will take some time to break in since its so fuel efficient it ran for 45 minutes and it burned 4 or 5 oz. at most. On the first flight it needed only four clicks of right aileron and two clicks of down elevator. I am afraid I may not have the engine trust straight on the mount or the thrust is too much with the Evolution 26 torque. I was measuring 7550 RPM’s with an Evolution 18-6 prop. I may need a couple more degrees of right trust, and that's no fault of the design.

On 90 degrees uplines it tends to turn left but 45 degrees inverted lines don’t need any correction, seems like the CG is dialed in perfect. With the CG at 4 5/8" the factory recommendations for travel are perfect; this baby is a *****cat, real smooth with no bad tendencies. On landing approach it settles on a perfect nose level attitude with a slow descent at idle. Rudder authority is excellent as all previous bunnies I have flown before. I didn't pushed the limits to hard for the first few flights, but I am sure the Baby Edge and the 260 will 3D more radical than their 28% counterparts due to the much lighter wing loading.

Kudos to Tom on this upgraded version of the Baby Edge, I think the Big Bad Bunny have another winner here. It was time someone delivered a quality built and affordable quarter scale ARF for the folks with space limitations on their vehicles. Thank you tom.

B.T.W. the HS-81's are still running fine