I had a beautiful maiden today with my Texan. I had the slightest breeze in my face and with 10% flaps she was ready to lift off at 3/4 throttle so I pushed it all the way and climbed out. I found out after a few passes that you must use the rudder and coordinate your turns. It pitched up on me, I lost most of my airspeed, and the wings started to wag. I got the nose down and went back to full throttle. With that lesson under my belt the rest of the flight was extremely pleasurable[8D]! Roll rate on high is still scale and slow. Loops were made very large and graceful. Landing was non-eventful with 2 attempts. The first would have been fine but down field so I pushed the throttle forward again. I didn't notice any bad torque to the left although that's the way I went around. Second was perfect, full flaps and I held her 1-2 feet from the ground and reduced power and kept easing the elevator back. It settle in for a 3 point landing. Very little trim was needed, 2 clicks ailerons and quite a few on the rudder, I will check the rudder and try again with zero wind. When I was building this plane I found that the wing was warped badly. I had 0 degrees washout on one wing tip and 2 degrees positive on the other. I corrected it to 2 degrees washout on both tips.

FYI on the hardware, it's very soft. I replaced all of my collars and some of the screws. I went with new mounting hardware on the motor as well. I Epoxied my stabs to the plane and I also epoxied the wing together to make it one piece because the bolt holes didn't line up without a big gap in the wing panels.

The Power 25 did it's job well and pulled the plane along great but if I was flying off of grass I would want just a bit more. You will need to add lead to the nose of this plane so I would leave the lead off and bolt on the Power 32. Just My Opinion Though

God Bless All!

Jay