"Andrew E. Mileski" wrote: > > The "new" Aspire is incredibly improved. The construction > and covering appear flawless (so far). It even incorporates > some badly needed design changes, like trailing edge plywood > reinforcement so the wing hold-down rubber bands don't crush > it. Every part now has several quality control stamps on it, > indicating increased QC vigilance. Kudos to Hangar 9! > > If I can get the workbench clear enough to see if these new > wings are warp free, tomorrow morning I'll do some test flights. > Then I'll happily revise my web page review if all goes well :) After 4 hand tosses to trim the Aspire to a perfect glide ... Hi-start launch #1 - Perfect, nice and straight initial ascent. At this point I'm thrilled! Wind starts to cause a drift to the left, so I correct ... I correct ... I correct ... DAMN IT! I'VE NO RUDDER CONTROL! Aspire releases far off center, and goes into a steep descending downwind turn. Everyone including me yells, "PULL UP!", but I have zilch control. Everything beyond the nose I glassed was nuked. Luckily I have a spare fuse. Wings are repairable, but my new custom plywood joiner is broken (one provided with Aspire is WEAK so I replaced). One servo and the switch harness were toasted, and the receiver needs a new antenna (and a checkup). Wonder if it was intererence - first time ever I've flown with someone on an adjacent channel (me = 33, others = 28, 32). Conclusions: 1) The new Hangar 9 Apire will fly as straight and true as an arrow. The old ones are lemmons. Look for the TE plywood at the root to help identify the newer ones. 2) I'm cursed to never really fly this plane :( -- Andrew E. Mileski Ottawa, Canada RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
