We had a terrific evening at the field.  Tried to do a check-out flight for a new member (Andy) who brought a 2.2-ish meter FMS Fox.  He was a Nitro Flyer years ago and wants to switch to electric.  It was a little windy for a hand-launch glider but we test flew it anyway for a trim flight.  The motor looked small, the battery looked small (1300-ish) but surprise- it launched fine, trimmed fine.  It ran out of juice a 100 feet too early....or the runway moved 100' upwind.  Sorry Andy.  My fault.  No damage.

Trimmed out his 1.3 meter P-51.  It flew fine, trimmed out fine and landed fine..eventually on the 3rd bounce.

On the Temac member side there were Guy, Mark, George, Glenn, Paul G. Paul S., Alex, Kenny, Andy (old), Andy (new), and a quick visit by Cadez.


Frank

The 3 of us flew our new Panthers together.

Parts came in last Saturday, fixed the landing gear and the only thing that was mildly annoying was the E clip. however the new ones don't come painted so that still has to be done.

the plane is thankfully flyable again

I will be there rain or shine at or about 13:00.

• Day A mix of sun and clouds
• 19° Feels 19
• Wind 12 km/h SW
• Wind Gust 18 km/h
• Humidity 46%
• P.O.P. 20%
• Partly sunny throughout the day.

So there you have it!
Guy

Thanks for the heads up!

I'm working hard to get my fleet see worthy today! I sea where this is going!

Karl is right on the mark.  It's a pterodactyl egg.  I don't know how I could have missed this.

Thanks for your sagely insights Karl.
(I hope it doesn't go after the Beech Staggerwing I got from you!! 😂

Andy

Yep, weather sucks.

Guys,

I talked to Admiral Guy this afternoon about tomorrow's probability of a regatta at TooGood pond.  We are going to pass on it.

Frank

Peter's maiden of the Ryan STA.

Impressive flyer.

Frank

The maiden flight went well yesterday.  It took off at half throttle, totally controllable.  It was on 3 cells 2200. Interesting that the plane was very control sensitive.  I usually maiden an airplane with minimum throws.  Just good enough to take off, do a couple of circuits and land.  Yet both the roll and pitch were much more sensitive than I thought.  No problem but that's why I use minimum throws.
(here is my post on "How I maiden airplanes" https://temac.ca/smf/index.php?topic=3826.0).

The plane is simple, responsive and neatly powered ("always over-power an airplane.  You can always throttle back if you have to"). 

Thank you Ton.  A nice addition to my fleet.

Frank