I got my new Artemis From ICARE on Monday. The packing that they do is some of the best I have seen. The box was triple ply cardboard and everything was raped in bubble rape. Went to see Troy about help get the servos installed and the set up, This was on Wednesday. Troy was ripping right through it as the wiring harness was all installed. All we had to do was put the servo in. All was going well until we got to the elevator servo. There was quit a bit off stickshon (spelling) in the control rod. We tried a smaller rod and it was still there. Had to call it a night. When I got home found some 50 ths carbon rods that work fine. Went back up on Friday to finish up after a day of fishing. I ended up staying the night. Thanks Lora for the use of the couch. We finished up about 3 am and got to bed at 4:30. Up at the crack of 9:30 had some coffee and toast shot the breeze for a hour or so. Then went out to the field for a test flight. I had brought my winch and turn around but in the hurry to leave on Friday forgot the winch peddle. So were at the field Troy says put your plane together and I will make a peddle. He's moving stuff around in the van, then came over to the truck, looks around grabs a peace of plywood. He's off to the van finds a plug and cord a few drywall screws, metal box cover and some bubble rape. Low and behold 5 minutes later he has a winch peddle and switch made up. As I get back from setting the turnaround, he says ready to try it. We do a couple of hand tosses and it is very close. So we hook it up and try a launch without camber, it is a overcast day with winds in 10 to 15 mph. Troy throws for me and it goes straight up the line. Check the trims and could use some down so I put in a few click and no change. So I put in some more then all of it. It still want to climb. I get almost back and I'm setting up for a landing and Troy say are you still in launch mode? We both had a big laugh over that one. The next launch was with camber and it pull real hard, had to push some down to keep from stalling. Took out some camber, read most of it, try again it is still pulling very had but isn't trying to stall. The zoom was impressive! The next thing was to shot some landing. Let just say I was short on all of then except two. Too say it stop when you pull the flaps is a under statement. I will be spending a lot of time working on my landings. All in all it was a great day to be out flying and It is a keeper.
Hope everyone got to do some flying. Martin Doney Baldwin, MI(the middle of nowhere) RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
