El ****co.... Very Nice!

Do335a... I would suspect I'm often times out over 1/4 mile and very rarely over 1/2 mile. Pretty much as far as the eye can see is my limit. I have one glide on a Cularis that went just above 2200' AGL. Given the offset angle, that could have been 1/2 mile or so. It was a spec for sure! I just need to get in flights on a noise maker. Total of 5 so far and I just need to adjust to not listening. It will come.

And a couple of notes....

First, the light ply firewall compressed badly. I'm using stand offs that are like .75" in diameter and they still pressed down into the wood pretty easily. On the bench, while running/warming up... one of the motor bolts and mounts fell out. So, it's lock tite time! Hopefully it has compressed now and will hold better. Also, I had a moment of really bad luck that was at great timing! My ignition battery has deans plugs. I ran servo sized wire to the voltage regulator. Well, on the bench, we started getting a bad power signal as indicated by a LED. Messing with it I found that the wire had broken at the end of the solder to the plug and was making intermittent contact. WHEW!!!!! Glad this was on the bench! So, I replaced the wires with nice 14g silicon coated wires and have them strapped to the model before it gets to the more fragile wires. So, a rough unplug should have no effect on the lighter wiring. Live and learn and this lesson was awakening and wow did I use up a pile of luck.

So, after these fits and starts, I finally got it into the air again! The weather was pretty darned gloomy with only one moment of brightness... so my photos aren't the best. They do however represent well what the eye was seeing with regards to the model.

The first and second are just it flying by. The third shows the bomb doors just beginning to open, the fouth the 13 eggs dropping out and the fifth just a lone model on a dark and gloomy evening at sunset.