I lost a post as I was trying to upload some pix, so I'll try again.
My two youngest bought me a father's day gift yesterday, it was quite a surprise I can tell you. An even bigger surprise was in store, they asked me for the money to pay for it!
Yesterday was a lovely day for flying and I had my old Ben Shereshaw Falcon out, powered by a laser 70 4 stroke it was the first time I'd flown it for nearly 2 or 3 years. There were some really BIG thermals around, equally there were even BIGGER downdrafts any way I floated around for half an hour and even called a landing and the big old bird plonked down smack in the centre of the strip, really pleased with that, my Windy ain't it had problems with the engine so I took it home and discovered a split in the exhaust pressure line, sorted the engine and control and, after dinner, went back up the flying field for the last hour of daylight.
She went off dead straight and the 5 degrees of downthrust I added aren't quite enough. Took her up till she specked out, brought her down for some lovely low and slow passes then a few loops, try what I could I couldn't get a roll out of it, the rudder is way too small.
Specked her out again and 13 minutes into the flight the engine spluttered and died, not bad for a 2 ounce tank eh? the OS 26 fs is really frugal. 10 minutes later she crossed the threshold and once again smack down on the spot. Absolutely delighted with this plane's performance; it's taken me off and on 7 years or more to get to this stage so I guess I'll retire it after this season, as I really used it as a challenge from my youth, it certainly brought out the rose tinted spectacles
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I'll try, once again, to add some pics, I'll add the descriptors if I'm successful!!!!
Well, the yellow and blue one is the "Windy Ain't It" and the other is a semiscale Fokker D7 that I've commented on elsewhere. The former has to be 20 years old and the fokker is about 10 years old.