The Chupa Dart has flown and it's performance was as predicted, no floater but certainly a good R/E thermal platform. Unfortunately the day I went to the hill to fly there was very little wind, not what was forcast allowing for no slope lift. Anyways the first hand launch turned out to be almost perfect, finding some lift but still trying to get used to the plane within less than two minutes max, causing me to lose the lift I had encountered.(a good excuse) Nothing really improved on the north side of the hill after several (many) hand launches, so I ventured off to the west side where there seemed to be a developing wind which is common once the local atmosphere decides what it's going to do. In any event the conditions improved and I had several almost speck out flights, but being very careful to not get to high due to no spoilers etc. Overall I'm quite happy with the Chupa Dart in it's first flight series.