Temptation finally flies

[Larry Ott]

Dennis,

Congrats on the new plane. Can't wait to see the pics.

It sounds like a lot of Temptations were built over the
winter. Can all you lucky folks post some flight reports?

Larry in Denver

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> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:24 AM
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> Subject: Temptation finally flies
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> 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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