Hey, it flew pretty good. I'd been in Huntersville for about 10 minutes. Cooling my jets, sitting on the tail of my car with the gate up. I see Mike walking up the drive. From 50 yards, he holds his hands out like, So, where is it. I reached behind me and whipped it out, he took it and looked it over, Hmmm, it'll fly. Wanna do it now? I fidgeted a second, Well what are you here for!? Okay okay, that did it. I like a man that gets to the point.
We rigged it up and lit the fire. It has an AME .061 on it now, and a 4-1/4" Rubber Ducky. I waved it off and it went like a rocket when I caught up with it nearly overhead. About all I could do was keep it turning until I could figure out where the hell, or even how the hell to point it. I gradually worked it lower and made a couple of... what we stunters call Laps, and something that resembled 8s, not even close to lazy. I felt like I was gradually taming it when it flamed out. As soon as the engine cut, it came into the circle with the lines crumpling, Mike shouts UP! But ain't no way I was going to catch it, so I just watched it fall. I was within reach of one corner of the paved runway, and that's where it hit nose first.
It looked okay so I let Mike try it. He waved it off and it flew sraight into the ground. Ooops... uh Mike, I hold the handle backwards. You What! Sorry, I should've mentioned that. Ya think! Okay, we got past that and launched it again and he was zinging around for a while then looks over and yawns and grins. I think my wife has all this on her phone, I'll check. All of a sudden he starts doing something like vertical figure 8s like I've never seen before. I'm pretty impressed. Mike shouts, The weights came off. Ha! he held onto it a long time, but the end was inevitable. It didn't hurt it too bad, just a tape job and I'll be flying it across the street from my house. That was a pretty damn entertaining way to start the weekend. Thanks everyone who answered all my clueless questions. It was worth it and I'll keep flying it until I can tame it. I was getting there. I think with a little more fuel I would have smoothed it out pretty good. I'll look for any pictures or video on the phone.
Rusty