Thanks everyone. Yea, I'm quite the happy camper on how stuff is turning out. So far, I've found no bad characteristics on how it flies. As a matter of fact, it's turning out to be a big pusycat, and quite easy to fly. That's quite a welcome relief after flying the little one, years ago. The little one that I flew 12-13 years ago, did ok, but I could never relax with it.

By the end of the second flight (the one you see in the video), Jerry commented that he could see I was starting to get more comfortable with it, and he's right. The little one always had this little 'tail wiggle'. Most of the ones I saw did it. This one doesn't do that at all. It just tracks straight ahead, nice and solid. It really feels like flying a traditional, centrally mounted single engine airplane. To answer one of the above questions, nope, no gyros on anything. I had thought I might have to do that, but it's turning out that it's not needed at all.

One reason might be, is that my outboard elevators are scale, unlike the smaller ones, on my older one. These scale ones are huge, and seem to do a better job with authority on the roll control.

As I go into the winter building season, the couple of good flights have been a welcome shot in the arm. This winter I hope to get retracts in it, and the engine bypass's done, including the inlet spikes. Next year will continue the test flights to further explore if there are any problems, but so far so good....

Lance