What Winter? While coolish at about 44F to start, the sun came out after some early light fog, and the temp gradually rised. Got to strip off the jacket after a bit! It was a great day with really no wind nor rain. Flew four flights on my SNAFU and two with the new to me Kaos! The maiden went really well with no issues. I think i put on a couple clicks right aileron and one of down elevator. Sweet plane! Groovy like on rails as it should be, fast, but it slowed down nicely for landings. The only problem was on the second flight , the retracts would not come down all the way and lock, so i landed with gear mostly up. Meant to land on the grass but ended up on centerline of the mat and then the Kaos slid down centerline about 70 feet, lol! That put a slight dent on the bottom of the wing between the retracts, but no other damage occurred! I came home and replaced the servo arm on the retract servo with a new one. The one i took off had stripped splines.
While there, the gravel truck with backhoe delivered a load of 3+ gravel then a load of 3/4”. He laid the gravel to extend our driveway to the shed. Very generous father of one of the young boys who flies in the club. I think Don and Cliff gave him $100 for the time and effort!
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