37.5″ Demon Ritewing Maiden

Well, maiden time (finally)
The servos have been replaced (one failed on Jacko).
Motor test run, amps are down a bit on max, mid 30′s on the 6 by 4, this motor is designed to run a 7 by 4.

Lets set the scene.
Last of the rain has just finished, it started at 9:30 am, its now 10:45 am.
Bit of a breeze
Friggin cold
The sky on one side is black, hard to see and the landing aproach is filled with the sun, perfect.

Mikey B is with me, launch here, she rolls left and climbs, do a few circuits, trimming, trimming, woohoo shes flying level.

My throws on low rates are still heaps, I find i am moving the stick 5mm from centre = 1mm at the elevons ! for normal flying.

1/2 throttle only, cant see this thing head on with the bad light, suprisingly the yellow/black bottom is just black, the silver/red top also looks black – perfect.

Punch full noise and point straight up, 399 feet or so, chop throttle and do a couple of power of circuits, after diving 200 ft……man this thing is fast, power off she would keep up with the lightning 48 ! (well almost )

Time for landing, fly out to the right…..fly into the sun !!!…call out to mike “cant see it”, “neither can I ” he replys, just hold on untill she is in view 2 seconds later…..swing her around for the aproach, to high, too fast , power back on and climb……..OK lets not do that again we decide on a cross wind landing so as not to fly past the sun sgain.

Comming in from the left, 150 ft up or so, maybe 500 ft out chop throttle…….too fast, come around again…..this time chop throttle before final aproach and grease her in, land on the strip,covered in mud from the worm holes

loved every second of the 4 minute flight, dident get to relax at all – show this one alot of respect.

Many thanks go to Jacko for building such a sweet wing, and thanks to Mikey B for standing by with calming words, spotting aircraft etc (we fly with Full size planes)