Frenchie, This past weekend just didn't workout well... I ended up having to work Saturday morning, which is normally my flying time, I charged everything up, including my video camera, for Sunday evening (which is my alt time), but we had 20+mph winds with gusts over 35mph, so that ended up being a bust too. On a positive note, I did get to run my ASP FS180AR Sunday night, what a brute this engine is. It's not quite broken in yet, but I leaned it out to see what it would do... I got over 15.5lbs of thrust (for 2 min) on my bench with a MA 16x8 prop and it still had had more to give. I'm extremely happy with this little gem (pics below). I need to run another tank through it yet and time it's fuel consumption, then it's ready to be mounted in it's plane. Oops, I'm getting off the subject... Back to the Smoothie... The forecast for this weekend is looking good at this moment, so with any luck the smoothie will be up in the air Saturday morning buzzing around SW Ohio.

Take care and good flying, Jerry