Maiden Report:</p>

CG 170, dry weight 42, wet 52, all throws per manual, 20 expo on alerons, 20 on elevator, no dual rates, air brake mixed with landing flaps. The wind was straight down the runway but gusting to 15-20.</p>

Took off without flaps on a long run, climb out was uneventfull, jet a full throttle tended to climb a little, adjusted trim to lessen, no trim what so ever was needed other than slight down trim. The day was gusty but the bird flew perfect without any bad tendencies at all. sharp turns remained stable, did a couple of loops, slow flight, gear pass with lowered flaps etc. then landed.</p>

The flaps with the air brake had no bad tendencies at all. Once lined up on final reduced throttle and had some slight pitching up and down but jet remained stable until on the ground. Once landed I had some trouble like others keeping it steady. The nose ran off into the grass and it scraped the wing missles slightly - no damage. I can see that I will have to really work at keeping it straight with these narrow gear. (I have the wider ones comming).

Things that I will change for the next flight - less expo on the alerons, a little more on the elevators - slightporpoise effect during flare but held it and she came down gently. I didn't add any weight to the jet for cg purposes. I like the way it flys at cg 170.</p>

I couldn't fly a second flight because I forgot to close the fuel valve on refuel and had a wet start that melted some air lines. I actually thought it would burn itself out, well it didn't and I had to put it out with a extinquisher). I fixed it overnight and itsready to fly again today.I will take it out again today to put a few more flights on it. Need to get all of the bugs worked out by a rally this weekend. The gear stance issue may be a challenge though.</p>

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