Finished painting. Turned out pretty good. Of course I had to go fly her and muck her up a bit. There's some Universal Law out there that prohibits me having a pristine model for more than 24 hours.
I put my Mobius cam on the left wing tip thinking I would just need a few clicks of right trim to counter. Boy was I wrong. First off I was fighting a crosswind of 10+. Took off and right at rotation she nearly knife-edged on me. Even on low rates she was rockin' like a drunk at closing hour. I trimmed her out of her stupor but she was very unstable feeling. To make matters worse I came in to land and it was the most craptastic landing I've had in years. Thought the gear was going to snap in half. Nose cone went flying, broke the pitot tube and scrapped the ventrals fairly good.
Sigh.
Even worse, the rough landing screwed up my Mobius and I can't import my video so you can bare witness to my craptasticness.
Well at least she looks good. :Loser:
I put my Mobius cam on the left wing tip thinking I would just need a few clicks of right trim to counter. Boy was I wrong. First off I was fighting a crosswind of 10+. Took off and right at rotation she nearly knife-edged on me. Even on low rates she was rockin' like a drunk at closing hour. I trimmed her out of her stupor but she was very unstable feeling. To make matters worse I came in to land and it was the most craptastic landing I've had in years. Thought the gear was going to snap in half. Nose cone went flying, broke the pitot tube and scrapped the ventrals fairly good.
Sigh.
Even worse, the rough landing screwed up my Mobius and I can't import my video so you can bare witness to my craptasticness.
Well at least she looks good. :Loser:
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