Test Flights

We headed down to the Goble field early this morning and I spent the first hour and a half getting it mowed for the club Fun Fly Sunday and so I could test fly the B-36 and F-4.

It is a big job getting the B-36 ready to go, lots of wiring to hookup.  I hadn't had it out for over a year, so there was a little head scratching going on trying to remember where things went!

I had installed new firmware in the Solo Shot 2 and I was anxious to see how it worked on the two test flights.  The B-36 video turned out good, the F-4 at 130 mph got ahead of it a few times.  I will have to edit it and put a link to it here some day.

The first takeoff is a kind of tense time, but the flight went great!

This is our friend Dave with his F-86 Sabre Jet, that is quite a contrast in sizes.

I got two flights on the F-4, the new batteries made it fly much better.  The second flight, I horsed it off the ground a little early and scared us all.  We spent most of the day there, after we got home, I did some work on the F-4 fixing a leak in the air retract system.