Finally getting a chance to work on this again. The Black Horse retracts are a little leaky with air, I can't seem to get around it. I emailed Hobby People, to see if they would replace the spool valve. I worked on isolating where the leak was from, the spool valve leaks in both directions, worse in one than the other. For the time being, I pumped them to the retract position to balance the plane. I shot a few pictures on the Vanessa Rig - as a bonus, see if you can find the Cox .049 free flight helicopter somewhere in a couple of the pictures. The last time I flew that, it took 6 months for me to find it in the brush where it landed.

When I mentioned that the construction was the same as the Black Horse, I meant that the technique, wood cutting, hardware, were the same. The exact dimensions, and the differences regarding the Seagull not having the flaps, or the retracts, were to me, minor. I bought the Black Horse retracts as the construction was very similar to the Seagull fixed gear. There are some differences, but nothing that I couldn't fix with some common tools to adjust the two together.

I was using a 3600mah battery for the ignition, and I wanted to make sure I wasn't far off the recommended CG. I measured the root and tips, and the final CG for mine I settled at 92.5 from the leading edge, not the 130 called for. It should survive this if it isn't good.