Archive for 1st March 2010

Maiden flight

It’s done nothing but blow a gale and rain for the last four days. Massive storms just a few miles away down on the atlantic coast.

Anyway, today was the first clear day, so a bit of fuel and it’s away !

This is the first time I’ve flown a control line plane for about twenty years, so it’s a bit erratic :-) The other problems were the garden was a bit small so the lines are too short and the fuel pickup didn’t seem to be working very well, hence the stuttering.

I’m kind of glad I crashed in the end, as I was getting dizzy. Longer lines next time.