Its time for the maiden flight. I received and installed a set of "Spring Air" 85 degree retracts and now the airframe is complete. I powered the machine with an OS 1.6 glow, swinging a "Menz" 17X8 prop. I moved the retracts inboard from there stock loaction and racked them forward using wedges to get the tires 1/4 way forward of the wing leading edge. Once the wing is mounted the wedges are not noticeable. The wheel base is almost prototypical and propellor clearence is about two inches when fuselage is parallel to the ground. The stance on a level surface looks just about right. To sum up the BF109G-2 not BF109F is an excellent appearing stand off scale WWII fighter.

From all of you who have flown this model, what are the does and don'ts when taking off and landing. This is not a light airframe and because of this I need all the advise from those who have conquered this machine.