Thirty years in the making and it's finally going to fly.
Update, 4/30/13. Took the old girl to Wilson, NC for her first flight. Met several members of the Down East Soaring Society, what a great and helpful bunch of guys. Brady, Martin, Larry, Chris, Kevin, and Dick, thanks guys I had a great time and I'll be back. I feel like I'm leaving someone out, sorry about that. Special thanks to Brady and Martin for helping me get her in the air.
Unfortunately there was only one flight. I built this plane and made the mods nearly 30 years ago and honestly I had little idea what I was doing. As you can see in the pics I straightened out the wing, added flaps and airlerons, 4 S20 servos in the wing, turned the fuse into a pod and boom with the original wood and a fishing rod blank, fully sheeted the top surface of the wing, an S33 for the spoilers, turned the empennage into a V-tail, two S30's to drive the tailplanes, and who knows what other weight gaining stuff. After all that I had never updated my Futaba 7FGK, so I sent that off to be brought up to spec. Wasn't sure it could still be done, but thanks to a search on RCG I found someone to do it......no programming for this old beast. Anyway, up the winch she goes. Floats kinda like a brick, what seemed like a minute or two later I land out. Put the little wench down in a cut corn field with 2 to 3 inch stalks still sticking up just waiting to shred some monokote. Which is what happened, plus 1 damaged rib and a busted control
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