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I found that post interesting, as I subsequently went to my local flying
site and there was a guy ready to fly a H9 P-51 and I immediately
advised him that he would be in for a real test regarding ground handling
and he shortly proved me wrong by taking off from hot top without incident..........twice.
So I decided to shut-up about it!
<P>Archie Stafford wrote:
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couple of weeks ago I posted about the poor ground handling characteristics
of this airplane. <SPAN
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </SPAN>Well,
after receiving a reply from <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Mike McConville</st1:PersonName>
I went and checked out the plane that I had personally flown. <SPAN style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </SPAN>The
builder had managed to get a lot of slop in his gear. <SPAN
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </SPAN>We
corrected this and it flew great…the ground handling was MUCH improved,
and was actually as easy to take off and land as they had advertised. <SPAN style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style='font-size:10.0pt;
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