Hey Joe thanks and I missed you when I was there last week. No Hac this time. Anyway yesterday was a great day at the field. We all took turns flying the Visa in between rain showers and had a blast. It now has 11 flights on it and its pretty much dialed in as far a I can tell. We made some small chaanges with the cooling and tweaked the rates a little but that is about it. It still has no mixing for knife edge and just the standard 1.5 percent for downlines.

We put everything in the hanger last night and forgot to grab the camera out of the TX case so the best I can do at the moment is put up some pics a friend took. I think they are a little small to really see fine details but I promise tonight I will put up some more.

The coolest part of the die was when we pulled out the scale they used at the WC's and wieghed it with TP 5000's. It came in at 4660 and this is not the light fuse plus I had to use 8711's in the wings. (1 ounce per servo heavier then 9151's, as is the fuse) I know its not painted but on the Passports we add 140 grams to completely paint and clear a fuse. That will put the total weight to something like 4.7 kilos. (Finally)

In closing I also just wanted to mention that I learned something yesterday. I have always said that mixing is not a bad thing if you take the time to get it right. Well after 34 years of flying pattern and 25 of designing planes I came to the conclusion that no mix at all is better. Not so much for when your on knife edge but for all the transitions to and from. It is really true and there is no coupling of any kind. The split rudder is working perfectly and no matter who is flying the rolling manuevers all look the same.

Gotta run Javier is on his way to pick me up and today is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chip