Been a long time! [8D]

No flights since the maiden last October. The weather here started to get nice in March, all the ice melted off the lake and I've put almost a gallon of fuel through my Arrow, flying off the water, but the wind has been so bad in the afternoon that I've been unable to do much land bird flying at all. Maybe 3 times, with various sport birds.

Maybe this weekend things will be better and the flyin at BARCS (Thompsonville, Mich) will be the place for the bomber to do her thing again.

I ran the engines up this afternoon, using 12x6 APCs on the 55AXs instead of the original 12x7s. Better, but still more airspeed than I need and not the thrust I'd like to have. Tried a pair of 12x5 MAS S2s, and they are the item- both engines are turning 12,100 on the ground, which is good for a little under 60mph and around 18 pounds of thrust total. That should make her quite peppy on takeoff, and stall turns should be fun.

More later