Received a very special set of wings this morning from Rae Coyle following the successful maiden of his 90- inch mosquito.

It took three trips to the MAST field in Truro for this to happen.  First time out, the tail wheel would not stay centered and all she would do was 10 foot circles to the left.

second time out, although Rae had worked on the tail wheel, the same problem.  no flying that day.

third time lucky this morning.  Still some serious left swing problems and the tail wheel was now working fine.  That led us to check other things.  Both motors tached right on at 8200 rpm.  So at the suggestion of several people there Rae pulled both motors and added some washers behind the motor mounts for quite a bit of added right thrust.

Now she still had a slight left drift tendency, but it was controllable and I lifted her off the field.  A few clicks of left trim and she was flying perfectly with no bad habits.  Easily flown!

and the e-motors swinging those 14-8 three bladed props sounded so real!

The landing was straight forward and easy, just lined her up and flew it on with about 30 percent throttle.  Nothing to it.

and that`s how I got my wings!  LOL

video at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oxSgsho3pU&feature=youtu.be

Glad that it went well! Sure looks nice in the air. Hope to see it at the warbird weet on Sunday.

Al, I've got you to maiden a couple of my flying machines......I swear you could fly a 2x4 with an engine attached, job well done sir!

Sugar 8-)

Super job Al! Glad to see it in the air. 

Fantastic build Rae, one to be truly proud of!  Wish I had half your building skills.....

sugarpops wrote on Aug 8^th, 2013 at 7:39pm:

Al, I've got you to maiden a couple of my flying machines......I swear you could fly a 2x4 with an engine attached, job well done sir! Sugar 8-)

actually Sugar, he has done that  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

I've been known to fly a brick or two,  one or two of them might have been mine.  ;D

Looks and sounds great. Glad the taxi issue was easliy resolved. I started experimenting with throttle coupled to the rudder for control of multi motored planes.

Mr