RV-8 Non-maiden Day!

I went to the field to maiden the new H9 RV-8 but was foiled by 15 JB workers setting about to hand weed the 80 acres of sod farm!  Holy moly, what a task.  Glad I don't have that job!  It was not a prob for me today though, because I really wanted to bench run the  new used Saito 82a in the plane, and then take photos on the very lush green runway.  I was able to taxi the plane too, and don't see any nose over tendencies.  I did note that the rudder/tailwheel throw yields a pretty large turning radius, so I upped the end points on the servo.  Regarding the engine, it started right up but would die on low idle.  I started with 2.5 turns open on the needle and probably turned it in just 1/4 turn.  Because transition was boggy, I tried opening the mixture screw and that made response quicker, while also improving the idle.  While fiddling the engine, I found that I had not set up the throttle kill, so I just killed the engine by lowering the trim on the throttle, like the good old days.  Next though, I set up the throttle kill, rather intuitive with the Airtronics SD-10G menu.  Upon opening the menu for throttle kill, it has default of -100%.  I changed that to -110% and also left the switch assignment on the little button on the top right of the xmitter which always returns to popup position...depressing it activates the kill control.  Release and the switch is off again, so no need to remember to flick it so the engine will run next time.   It was a rather fun outing even though I did not get to fly the RV-8.  Here are some pics of the pretty new bird:

You can see the workers weeding in the background!