Thursday, February 17, 2005

Some real flying

So this evening the wind calmed down and I got to fly some. I did a few laps and brought her in for a landing. She ended up going into the ditch in the landing, not too hard, but it did take the landing gear off. I then went ahead and hand launched the plane, and flew it some more. I even did a loop almost from level, pretty nice. Enough umpf to get her over the tree when I was a bit too low. Then I brought her in nice and easy for a belly landing in the grass.
I put her up again, and the wind started picking up again. She started getting away from me, and as I was bringing her back, having flashbacks of before, she dove down. I pulled up and she settled in hard, but not nose first. The GWS prop was even fine. A strut mount I just put in had come out, a side of the fuselage had broken, and the aileron I handn't fixed broke. I just read about the control levers tearing through the foam. I didn't see the pieces I was missing, so either they ended up breaking mid air, or they broke when I hit the bush in the ditch. I really should have checked better, but she flew well on one aileron if I missed something.
Anyways, I took a scrap of foam and made a new aileron, glued it on, fixed the fuse, and put the mount back in. It's all drying and should be ready to go tommorrow if everything goes well. The wind is predicted to be 2mph too, best all week.

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