First Flights

[Dave Baxter]

Hi Dave,
It's been a long time in coming but Doug & I got our Starduster airborne for the first time yesterday. I have never flown a taildragger or even a homebuilt before but I had this one up for about an hour. It fly's well but I will have to get use to the stick and compared to my docile Cessna hours this one feels more like a sports car. It fly's a tiny bite right wing heavy but not enough to bother changing anything at this point. Climb is about 1000 fpm at 80 mph does about 122 mph at 2300 rpm. I did not stall it at this point as it was the first flight.

We are going to be a bit over weight when full of fuel but that's partly because the pilots are both around 235 lbs.It will be a fun machine and when we get the 25 hour time flown off on it. I am looking forward ro going to some local fly ins. I think 25 hours should give me a little confidence. Right now I'm just happy to get it up and down again safely'
I attached a picture and also a 5 sec video.I hope you can open it.
Thanks for all the help you gave us during our construction years.
Jeff Reimer& Doug Cunningham

Regina Sask
Canada

 

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