Well, it finally flew. Don't know if the person that filmed it, can put it on the web so I'll tell you what happend.
Out of the spur of the moment, we decided to fly it today, after I just got back from camp. We got the two engines working well with eachother so we decided to fly it. We got it rolling and it was rolling perfect. We had some negitive incidence on the nose whel so it wasn't getting off the dround by itself, just like we had planned. The test pilot bumped the stick and off it went. When we went to put the gear up though, the gear door began to flex which caused the gear to not go up properly. So we decided to put the down and leave it, were we encounterd another problem, the nose wheel was turned about 45 degrees and was not able to lock down. So we left the gear down, knowing that the gear couldn't go up or down, and hoped that we didn't damage it too much.
He set up for the landing, and just as we began to set it down, one of the wheels on the mains fal off. So he gets it down with two broken gear, the nose and the left main. From what I saw wile it was flying. it seemed a little slow, but it could be that it was that gear door that was slowing it down. It defintly looked heavy, which is what the pilot said it was.
So I can say it was about a 60% succsess, we are going to fix it, probably within the next two weeks and fly it again before our Warbird event, so that we can have a succsessful flight, before our event. I can say that I'm happy that it flew, but I'm a little dissapointed that we had some damage at the end there, but there is nothing I could do. Oh, and BTW, my camera guy that was supposed to do it, was up flying 747s in RL.
Hopefully, I can get a video of it, one of these times.
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