Low north winds, blue skies, and warm today.  A tiny bit west at times, but so low only planes with giant foam ordnance had problems.
Kenny's brand new FMS P-47 (10 years old) had a great maiden flight.  Weight was needed in the nose and it all went well.  Then Kenny added 3 giant bombs and whatever tiny bit of wind there was push that poor plane all over the sky.  Then one fell off and Kenny had to trek to get it back.
Off came the foam and in went a 5000mAh 4S... and it flew perfectly.  The P-47 manual suggested a 2200 4S... no chance.

I re-maidened my PlanePrint 3D printed Super Tucano.  On its first flight last year it took off like a dream and flew beautifully.  The landing saw one main gear twist, a wing dug in, both wings broke at the seams and the whole nose section came off.  The landing gear on printed planes needs to be beefed up.  I glued everything back together and used threaded inserts on newly printed main gear.  These are solid.  I was walking the plane down to the main floor this morning and, as usual, wacked the elevator on the banister.  Of course, the entire tail cracked off.  PLA is not a good material for planes.  I glue it back on, taped it, and tried not to wrack it up any more getting it to the field.

It flies so well.  Smooth take off, a dream in the air, and it survived both flights and landings... no repairs.  So happy to take it home in one piece.

Thank you Jan.


F.

$32

Hello Jim,
What price would you consider?  I don't know the value and don't want to guess at a price.

Paul S.

I am impressed with the labelling of this Great Plane kit.
So easy to identify the parts.

Seeing you there.

Too funny... photo taken after the flights...

There are some maidens you come to expect all will go well, and this was one of them.

She just lifted into the air... both times... lovely.  A bit of trimming and all was good.

Michael kept the power on for landing or else she'd just drop... and she settled down beautifully.

Nicely done.

Successful maiden and second flights today. Thanks to Glenn and David for their help. Both flights had good landings.

The photo was taken after the flights.

A rainy wet and cloudy day turned into a warm, clear sky and low wind day at TEMAC.

I joined Glenn, Kenny and David for a few nice flights.

The Mustang is Glenn's; the A10 and the SE5A biplane are mine; the Phantom, the Spitfire and the Sirius jet are Kenny's; and the Viper jet is David's.

You can see Kenny's Phantom in the upper left hand corner in the image of David's Viper. The built-up Top Flite SE5a and the FMS Spitfire both had successful maiden flights.

Next week Wednesday, May 8 will be our first training day at Rogo Field.
- if you are a new member and wish to learn how to fly we will be happy to instruct you
- if you are a new member who has soloed and needs a check flight.
- if you have a new plane and are new to the hobby, we will be happy to check it out and do a trim flight for you.

I will be there no matter the weather.  If it is pouring I will head to Tim's at Woodbine and Stouffville Road.

Here is hoping some of the dependable helpers can come out like Mark, Paul, Peter, Philip
Vadim, Oscar, etc.

Frank