Thanks for the kind thoughts everyone. I was very much to the point of punching the throttle and seeing what the heck would happen. I was so ready for it to be difficult to fly with potential balance being way off or who knows what else would be wrong, I was completely floored, when it was so easy to fly.

Other than having to be so gentle with it, rate of climb wise, it easily went exactly where I told it. With it being so well behaved, I'm now really excited about flying it under turbine power now.

Under the heading, "pay me now or pay me later", the shortcuts that I took to fly it under props are now coming due. Now I'm making plugs for the molds for making Kevlar fuel tanks, and I've got the tail pipe installations to work out along with all the other parts to prepare for turbine installations. It seemed silly to make Kevlar tanks, bypass ductwork and inlet spikes if it was going to be unflyable, but now, itching to see it fly as it was intended, is an exercise in patience.

My goal is turbine flight on the fixed gear by then end of the flying season...time will tell.