Temptation finally flies

[D Suding]

At approximately 6:30 pm yesterday, I flew my new Temptation for the first
time. It took off into the west, towards the setting Arizona sun.  It was
a little rich, but had very good power.

I was racing against the clock to get the thing done before the Vegas
contest next weekend. I also wanted my dad to see it fly, and he was
leaving to go back to Colorado Sunday night.

We moved into a new house over the last couple of weeks, so we temporarily
have two houses, so I kept the tools in the garage at the old house, and I
can build in peace.

I started Monokoting last weekend, and John Gayer and I painted the fuse
last week. After the painting was done on Saturday we shot a light clear
coat and glued the canopy. Then I had to go entertain friends and mom and
dad until 10:30pm.  Drove over to the old house.  All night long I put all
the gear back in, and mounted everything. Drove back to the new house. I
slept from 6am till 11am. Got up, made brunch for wife and mother
(omtellets with rib-eye steak) and then went to work getting the thing to
fly. John came over at about 4:30 and helped me stretch the pull-pull
cable.

We fired up the motor in the driveway, and called everyone (mom, dad,
daughter) to meet us at the flying field.

Wife picked up a pizza on the way to the field. Everyone cheered as the
plane broke ground. It was two months of intense building at a crazy pace.
 I don't know how my wife stands me as it is, but the last two months I've
just been a crazy idiot.

Thanks to EVERYONE on this list. The hints and suggestions here were
applied to my plane as I built. Hearing about other people building and
flying and getting excited about contests really heps you when you look at
your plane and know there's 100 hours of work left to do.  I'll post a
link to some pictures tomorrow.

Absolutely HUGE thank you to John Gayer.  He let me use his HVLP sprayer
and also lent me a plane to fly while I was building the Temptation. The
man is a master builder and checked and corrected my work all along the
way.

I'm back. Who's going to Vegas?

-Dennis


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