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, but I believe it is headed into the Gulf and on it's way to Texas and Louisiana where it may turn into another hurricane, my prayers go with you guys in it's path, like you need another one so soon! 
weather, I was lucky and the revised "Arctic Thunder" graphics arrived today from Callie! Man, what would we do without her. She got them to me ASAP after I let her know the state was backwards, although I doubt just about anyone would really notice. It was a slow painstaking process removing the state lines (had to use a razor blade and made progress 1 mm at a time so as not to affect the underlying paint). At least I don't have to fly the maiden backwards now, whenever that happens.
That video was incredibly informative and interesting to watch. Now I know where some of the nomenclature goes that, you guessed it, I put in the wrong place like "Warning, Fragile do not Impact". Originally stuck it on my ego.
WOW, what an incredibly sweet flying machine this is. Only took me 4 years to get one (hope it doesn't take that long for the new Mig), but wasn't completely sold on getting it at first until after a lot of research and seeing Aros and others that did the Arctic theme that I finally said I Gotta Have One! And I'm not disappointed. I got 5 flights in on her, all fully loaded with the ordinance. Not sure how it flies without it, but I'll never find out cause an A-10 just has to be "loaded for bear" always, if not, it's like me going to the grocery store naked, and trust me, that's not something you want to see. 
Anyway, flew it with the CG around 88 mm instead of the book 78 mm and may move it back even further on the next flights to maybe 92-94 mm. All rates per manual, and I actually like the high rates best. Dialed in the AR637T with about 60% gains on flaps up mode, 70% on take-off flaps and 80% on landing flaps. We had a gusty 10-15 mph breeze and this big baby acted like it was dead calm. I used 2 RT 6250 mAh batteries and came in on the last flight after 5 minutes with 30% left (wow, that doesn't sound like an EDF). She had plenty of take-off power for our grass field and seemed like almost unlimited vertical; FW powered this perfect! With the twin vertical stabilizers, knife-edge was smooth and true! After reading many posts, I was concerned and a little (lot) nervous over the reported landing bounce, but slow flight was incredibly stable and she landed like a kitty cat. Upgraded the nose to the trailing link, so that may have helped as well. This is surprisingly fast and agile and can do any maneuver I can think of, yet cruises easily at 45-50% throttle. I had also put RF chokes on all wires coming from both ESC's and added a remote satellite in the nose for that little extra protection from signal loss. Everything went just a bit too perfect 
, so I'll have to keep my eye on this one! Thanks to all of you out there (and there's a boat load of you) who offered up all the great advice, it was much appreciated. Now back to working on the 3D cockpit (but I gotta get this out more so that project is going to drag on).
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