Another first.

I've been working on how to paint checkerboard for several weeks. After painting the trim colors on the new Cardinal I had a large open space on the wing bottom. What better place to try something new. If things didn't pan out it's not readily visible. It takes a lot of tape to do even the basic checkerboard. In the end the points were touching and very little cleanup of the bleed through. Now I have to wait for a dyr day to get the clear on. My cheap paint stand worked perfectly. It is made for the Brodak electric conversion kits. There is a piece of angle iron a steel rod and a piece of hose. All stuff I had on hand.

Body in white first flight.

As I sat trying to come up with a trim scheme for the Cardinal I figured I could assemble it and get in a test flight to see if what I did deserved the extra effort of trim colors. I had sprayed the white base coat two days ago. I removed the power package from another plane and installed it in the Cardinal. The motor is an Arrowwind 2820/07, a Hubin FM-0c Tmer, a 40 amp E.S.C., an HRB 4s 3300 battery, an APC 11 x 5.5 prop, a 2 inch plastic spinner. The motor speed is 9000 rpm. I didn't get the lap times. The plane weighs 55 ounces with one ounce of tip weight. I set the flight time to the minimum, about 2 minutes. The plane is stable in level flight but needs more elevator or wider spacing at the handle for better corners. The balance came out within the c/g circle without any other weight added. I was concerned about that with what I did to the design. All in all the plane is worth the effort to paint trim colors, if I can think of a design. These assholes changed the format on the blog and there is no icon to ad a picture. After several hours I figured out how to get rid of the new crap and ad a picture. They are still assholes.