Intruder

It was another warm day filled with sunshine, and a little stronger wind out of the north. Still, it was a great day of flying the Intruder for 4 flights of smooth and rail-like aerobatics. That is still one of my fave planes...makes me look like a good pilot! The challenge today was the long line of sprinklers along the SE corner of the runway, making approaches from there a little wet. Along the south edge of the runway at the west end were two lengths of extra sprinkler pipe with heads on them, so that made another obstacle. And finally the sprinkler pipes were laid along the dirt road beginning at the west end of the runway, and they were turned on for added fun. Joe overran the runway twice with the WM Extra that he maidened today, and ended up in the sprinkler radius over there, getting lightly sprinkled both times. Joe and I helped inspect John Doan's 50cc Edge 540T (KPM), after Jeff did some repair work to it since its last outing. I flew it for John, and then he took over on a solo flight of his own. There was concern about it porpoising out of control in its last outing. The first thing I observed when Jeff turned it on was that up and down elevator were reversed, so maybe they tried to fly it that way last time and were lucky to get it back with just engine mount damage. It flew fine for me, and then for John. They were most appreciative.