Got the Stik with the RCGF-USA 10cc and Walbro WT-80A carb out and she started right up. Needed no tuning, so we are making good progress! She flew wonderfully, and the more she flew the better she behaved. I flew 4 tanks, tuned the high needle a little. She dead-sticked 3 times though.
3 Dead-sticks. Two ended on the runway. The first she leaned out and then died going full vertical several hundred feet up. She did wonderfully up to the quit. She leans out in vertical and goes and goes! She was high when she died, brought her back in just fine. The second I was inverted, then rolled back to upside-up, and she just quit, again good altitude to make the runway. The third was a touch and go, climb out and she quit. I didn't have a lot of altitude to work with and she was 180 off in the wrong direction. Lost altitude getting her around, the wind was tail and too strong to land with it behind her, had to put her down as she lost what little altitude she had, and she disappeared below the infamous edge of the hill. Kept her level and she landed just fine. Flew another tank just fine. Notice no oil all over her! Running leaner.
THIS is what the RCGF-USA 10cc sounds like when its healthy! This one has always run well without any need for tinkering. I have a 13x8x on it now, thinking of trying a 12x8x3, but not sure it needs a smaller prop.
Taxi out. I don't have a way to fly and video at the same time, so... just the taxi out.
The weak knees... and why I had to reset the crash clock. This Sukhoi RCGF-USA 10cc flies amazingly well, and her engine is amazing. But on a simple touch and go her landing gear gave way... again. It's her thing. I have rebuilt the gear so many times. I have always gone with trying to let them be capable of breaking away, but they do too easily, so this time I am hammering down.
She wasn't even going that fast, just touched and gone.
That's a lotta dirt right there... and that's the gear hardpoint all nekkid.
The landing gear hard point ain't so hard...
Built up the base, tons of epoxy. Put a small block of wood on this near end to cap it.
The black bulkhead with the two holes is the back of the gear hardpoint. I put in those two huge pieces of lumber to buttress up the frame, and I will put a couple of vertical posts on top of those. I intend to really bolt this new hardpoint down this time. Those stringers are new where clean as they were broken too. This plane has seen so much work here.
Not pictured now, but I am building a new attachment for the gear and am laminating some plywood for it. That thing ain't coming out... More to come in a few days, have to make the donuts.
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