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Well we maiden the skymaster a 10 today with 18 mile per hour winds. my freind Dave E, and paul helped with maiden. dave did a very good job with the winds. she flys good I need to add a little more up elevator and a little more weight in the nose video will be up next week.. thanks very one for the help,,,,,,,,,,,,,, scott kieper

Scott...... congratulations on your maiden. I hope to do mine this week.

Rcpete made a very interesting comment about the elevator. The plane does need a lot of up elevator in order to fly leveled. When Michel (Jetsrc) maidened his jet, he did had to apply a lot of elevator in his first flight. After the second flight, the elevator was adjusted and it was pointing up instead of being leveled. I have set mine in the same way.

I think Ali's A-10 is the same way.

O,,by the way she came off a grass field with p80se from jet cat

HI Scott, glad you had a good maiden, makes all that work you did worth it.
Was at the Canadian National Airshow today and watched 10 minutes of the real A-10, awesome Jet.
Rcpete

Pete:

I was at the Cleveland Air show on Saturday, watched the real A-10 fly also, and got one of the A-10 "drivers" to autograph a picture of my A-10!

Nick

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HI Scott, glad you had a good maiden, makes all that work you did worth it.
Was at the Canadian National Airshow today and watched 10 minutes of the real A-10, awesome Jet.
Rcpete

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Pete:

I was at the Cleveland Air show on Saturday, watched the real A-10 fly also, and got one of the A-10 ''drivers'' to autograph a picture of my A-10!

Nick

Hey Nick, I was an A-10 driver....I would have signed your picture at KY jets!:D No problem, there's always next year.

Craig

Scott/DaveE

Great news, another Midwest A10!
We need will need a formation flight/picture soon.

DD

Hi
What a great feeling it is to have the maiden over with. Once the trims were set, it really got gentle. I haven't had my finger shake that much in a long time.
Scott has to do some minor things to really make it right ( a little more lead in the nose & more throw in the elevator ). I left the landing gear down ( one less thing to worry about )
It still seemed very stable, even with the strong winds that we had. I was also very supprised that even with the grass field & the P-80 SE in it, it still lifted off in about 400' .
I want to thank Scott and Lori again for having faith in me to fly this great plane and of course all the Club members that helped.
Dave

Congrats Scott, Dave.

Any chance of seeing it fly Wed?

L Turner

Yesterday was flight #2 and #3 on Scott K's SM A-10. After some scary moments on the maiden with sudden pitch-up, almost to a complete stall sliding down final, a little head scratching and review of many comments on the MIBO A-10 threads, I felt that to correct that quirky pitch change between idle and full throttle, i.e. a pitch down moment with full throttle, and pitch up moment with low throttle and idle, all that was necessary to correct was a throttle->down elevator mix from about 40% throttle to idle. The exact mix was initially a guess, but it came out right on. As you can see, there is no excessive nose down pitch leading to a jump-off type T/O and while landing, no more abrupt pitch up with reduction of power down final. That little balloon on final was due to a wind gust and a slight overcontrol, followed by the smoooooth touchdown.

Anton and Likai have really produced an excellent kit.....Scott, a skilled builder put the pieces together, and Dave Elsinger, our #1 test pilot, brought it back smoothly.

Thanks to club vieographer, Rich Behrend. for the HD video.....

Click on the A-10 video on the right margin after getting to Rich's website with the link below and watch in full screen 720 HD....

After lift-off, the entire flight except for a couple of mild chandelle pull-ups was at 1/2 throttle. Dave held 1/2 throttle with gear and full flaps which required no trim change on downwind and base and slowly retarded throttle to idle in the flare. Temp was about 52 F. P-80SE's were more than enough power as long as both are running.....;) Plane is about 65 Lbs dry. Stores, not yet installed will add another 8 lbs and drag. Scott might upgrade to P-140's or 120SX's for next season.

http://www.youtube.com/user/********.../0/L1Oy6gwHDkY

Congrats Scott and Dave, Good job flying and nice video too. Did anybody notice something flying off right gear area at 2:52 in video? Got to love the A10. One day for me no doubt.What did dry weight come out to? Scott

Good eyes Scott.....it was one of the right gear doors.......

Would like to say thanks... to Dave and Tom for the help..... sweet video too...... Thanks everyone..... scott

Scott, did you use the sky master c.g.

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Scott, did you use the sky master c.g.

65 pounds dry
Rcpete

Congrats on the A-10! I heard a quote once about the A-10, "You can run, but why die tired?"
Did you use the dummy fan blades spinning in the front of the nacelle?

Hello
Yes the dummy fans were on it . The A-10 flew as nice as any scale Jet that I have ever flown. Once we got the trim thing figure out, It really can together
Scott did a great job of building this beauty.
Dave

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Congrats on the A-10! I heard a quote once about the A-10, ''You can run, but why die tired?''

Actually that was the original Ranger Sniper Mantra....but no use trying to outrun that PavePenny guided Gatling either..;)