Finally got the first flight in on my T-34. It was a little hair rasing, but all right. It all started out after a trip to Miami this past weekend. I finally found my Hobbico retracts that I have been looking for. Getting home, I noticed that it will take some work to make the nose gear work right, so I decided to work with the factory supplied one. Tuesday was a little windy, so I brought the T-34 and my Sig Mayhem 40 to the field. After flying the Hayhem in the wind, I decided to test out the nose gear on the T-34 to make sure I had everything set up right. I swear I was only doing a fast taxi on the runway. Between the 10 ft ground run (Saito .65 4S witha Zinger 12X6) and the sudden wind gust, I was airborne. Holy smokes, guess I have to fly it now. Thank goodness I always do a complete pre-flight, even for taxi tests. About 5 clicks of down, it tamed the beast and now to get it around the patch. Winds were gusting pretty good (15-20 mph), but at least down the runway. I did not retract the gear, just concentrated on flying the plane. Lined up for final, winds still gusting, but she settled very nice. Nose wheel held up.
Yesterday, I was going to fly it again, but this time the field was way to wet for those little wheels, but the nose wheel bushing is loose, so I'll have to either fix it, or just repalce the nose gear with the Hobbico nose wheel assembly.

Hopefully I'll get one of the weekends where the winds are 5-10, the field is dry, and everything is ready to go on the plane.