Jim Walker "Firebrand"...It Flys !!!!!

Back in August of this year, I started work on my Jim Walker "Firebrand" combat wing.  It was kitted in the late 1960's, and the one I flew back then was powered by a Cox QZ .049 with muffler. The plane flew fairly slow, and I'm trying to recreate that "Slow Ride" from back in the day.

After a few months of parking on the Ready Line, the little foam plane finally got it's first flights on Sunday, and everything went pretty well. There was an off-and-on breeze breaking over the hill, so I left off the muffler band, used a 5-3 gray prop, and a Tee Dee head on the QZ to speed up the plane and help it get out of it's stooge.

The wind STILL slapped the light-weight control liner around quite a bit (downwind turbulence from my house), but it handled it well enough to log 5 flights, and got put away unscathed.

Now, to slow it down, AND find myself a human stooge to throw it, along with trying to get some decent video of it's flights.