Hello to everyone!

We got some stick time in today down here at HFI.[sm=thumbup.gif] I got several flying buddies that fly here with me, but one ole' fart stood us up today. I won't mention any names, but............... he knows who he is. Dauber and I had to do all the work, but someone has to do it. Bill Wheeler showed up for support. His transmitter is in the repair shop at the moment, so all he could do was heckle at us.

Some of you know I drug the old Hanger 9 33% Extra out of storage this winter and installed a DL-100 in it. That along with some new Hitec 7955's and a Spectrum AR9000 receiver got her going again. Today was the maiden for it with all the new gear. Everything went pretty good I guess. I had a few problems with the DL but nothing serious. It took about 30 flips to get it started the first time. Ran it for 5 or 6 minutes and checked the rpm's with the Xoar 27x10. Only 5640, but on the first run, and both needles at 1 1/2 turns out, not too bad. I decided that was too much load on a new engine, so I yanked the prop and put on a Mejzlik 26x10. Got 6690.... Much better, so I flew it there for 3 flights. On the 3rd flight I had a plug foul out. Yanked the cheap stock plugs and put in some NGK CM6's, leaned the HS just a bit, and put the tach on it...... 6870 now. Got in one more flight before dark. All in all not too bad. I did have one dead stick, but I think it was from the old fuel tubing in the tank being stiff. It quit on my on an outside 1/2 loop. Here's a few pics of my Extra, and one of Dauber today. He ended up having canopy problems, so he didn't get to fly. But him and Bill managed to give me a hard time like all good flying buddies do. [sm=spinnyeyes.gif]