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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#0000ff>Way to go Georgie...
I'm sure it looks as good as you feel it flew. Glad you screwed up the courage
to brave the elements. Remember.. Don't sell yourself short. I realize testing
the waters with new ship can be trying but I suspect you were tweaking an
already proven design that you have developed to this plane.?.
Maybe.?..</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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Del K. Rykert<BR> AMA - 8928
<BR> NSRCA - 473<BR> Kb2joi -
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<A title=geobet@gis.net href="mailto:geobet@gis.net">george kennie</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:47
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Fresca</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Wow,wow,wow,.........I just got back from the flying field
after doing<BR>the maiden on my new Fresca. When I got there it turned
out to be<BR>windier than I had hoped that it would be. I almost packed up and
came<BR>back home, but I decided to chance it as my trip to the field
takes<BR>almost an hour and I didn't want all that time to go for naught.
Well,<BR>at any rate, I gassed it up and taxiied out to runway center lined it
up<BR>and took a deep breath......"Here goes" advancing gradually it
became<BR>airborne in about 80 feet and proceed to fly out pretty straight,
kinda<BR>by itself, as I was a little nervous and not focusing all
that<BR>well.After all, this thing took me longer to build than anything else
I<BR>have ever done so I was somewhat apprehensive. O.K., procedure turn
and<BR>back for my free pass, oops got a little dive here, two or three
clicks<BR>of up elevator, "Ah that's better, Hmmm, this thing doesn't need
any<BR>aileron, boy, it feels like my Focus! O.K. let's try that stall
turn<BR>with 1&1/4 up, Zooooom, Wow that roll rate is impressive, and
still have<BR>beaucoup climb after completion of the roll. Oops, screwed up on
the<BR>down line and rolled the opposite way, that's O.K, I'll just pull
out<BR>inverted."<BR>Well anyway, you get the idea. I was somewhat aghast that
with a 15 mph<BR>30 degree cross wind blowing in, this thing would come out of
a down<BR>line and transition to level flight and the wings would ABSOLUTELY
LOCK<BR>straight and level like there was no cross at all! For me it
kinda<BR>confirms all the stuff that I've been able to learn about
force<BR>arangements over the last 5 or 6 years from guys like Bryan(helped me
a<BR>lot).<BR>I proceeded on through the Masters pattern and was really
impressed with<BR>the vertical performance. I threw in the figure 9 from the
FAI sequence<BR>just to see how well it would handle all the drag and it
never even<BR>slowed down. You're probably saying, " they're not supposed to
with a<BR>DZ". Well I want you to know that I am using a 120 FZ on 20/20 and
this<BR>thing is awesome. Verticals are more authoritive than my Focus with
a<BR>150. The thing that really blew me away is the fact that I don't
think<BR>this thing has unlimited vertical. I did one ascent that had
me<BR>convinced that it was going to cease gaining altitude, but that
point<BR>occurred at about 1200 feet, it was a spec!<BR>I took it up twice and
then decided to pack it in 'til I get a little<BR>more stick time on this bird
under more favorable conditions.<BR>Yeah, I know you're saying, "what's a
Fresca?" It's a design I came up<BR>with around the first of last December and
built it up over the winter.<BR>Oh yeah, I forgot to add that the mix is
almost negligeable. It's got a<BR>very slight pull to the canopy on K/E to the
right and straight as a die<BR>to the left. Just a hint of adverse couple to
the right, but you have to<BR>wait quite a while before it starts to
show.<BR> It's a little smaller than 2 meters, but the nice thing is it
came in<BR>at 8&1/2 pounds.It has a one piece wing that weighs, with
servos<BR>installed, covered, and a substantial belly pan/pipe tunnel on the
wing<BR>bottom, under 28 ounces.Matt K. has always told me about light wings
and<BR>now I know what he's talking about.In spite of the roll rate being
quite<BR>crisp the wing stops quickly and stabilizes.This is my first
experience<BR>owning an aircraft with a power to weight ratio of this calibre
and I<BR>also know that there are others out there with an even greater
ratio<BR>which must be totally awesome.<BR><BR> For me it was all in all
a pretty rewarding
experience.<BR>Georgie<BR>=====================================<BR># To be
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