RE: PURPLE MALLARD
Today was a beautiful day for any maiden flight ,sunshine blue sky and no wind . I assembled her and filled up the tank that had pressure tested during construction , started her up and noticed the nacell leaking. Turned out to be a bad stopper ,30min later starter her up again and went for a taxi. Three passes later I decided it's time to fly . The 46 ax with a 10 / 7 at full throttle was enough to get her off the water,I let the wing do it'sstuff with very little elevator and with the help of a boat wake, I was in the air. She flew WONDERFUL the whole flight no bad habits,I didn't realize untill after the flight was over that I didn't add any trim at all ,no B.S. Perhaps she was telling me i'll give you one good one today ,because the screw that holds the carb on the intake vibrated out on the maiden found a replacment in my box and restarted her , then the one that holds inner guts of the carb vibrated out and I couldn't find it. Flying over so sad.........NJ
P.S. sorry no pictures