Thursday 5 May 2016

Maiden flight of the Nan Shadow.

Having acquired this lovely F3J glider, all 3.6+ metres, off Tim on tuesday lunch time I was raring to try it out! So come the evening a short trip to a local field I occasionally use, for a couple test glides. Perfect hardly a breath wind. Not too hard a throw, the nose dipped a little I levelled it  about a foot from the ground, it just went on and on! Seemingly.Brilliant. Tried another, exactly the same so  slightly nose heavy, ideal for a maiden.

Perfect conditions today lightish winds SSE, so off to Colley Hill and to to fly from Saddle Knob which is west of the usual flying area, with its better landing area.

The video shows parts of both flights and yes a few grams will be removed from the nose before next airing. Apart from a few clicks of up trim, some down was programmed in for crow.

Think I`m going to like this machine!

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