My Flying

I started flying in our back yard which is a small field with pines, birches and other nasty stuff on the sides. Somehow I never managed to hit these objects during a take off (hand launch), but only occasionally while flying...

Here is a pic of me "going solo" for the first time. I crashed three times that day.
Usually in these early days of my flying I flew a flight or two, crashed, spred the bits out on the kitchen table, then reassembled the model, and was flying again after four days or so.
Poor quality scan from 1995.

I learned inverted flying the hard way... My Goldberg Cessna was seriously nose heavy, and wasn´t able to fly inverted, and I panicked and just waited for the ground to jump up at it!
The Cessna was never repaired, and my next model, the P-40, was also my first own design.

I built the P-40 to 1/12:th scale. I cut it out from foam and covered it with brown paper. It flew, and it flew fast. I did one short flight which ended in a successful landing. The next few bad hand starts resulted in a broken fuselage and I binned the project.
Of course the P-40 wasn't the ideal step up from a stable high wing aileron trainer. And also, not the best structural design either.

The Astro-Hog was a perfect first low winger. Powered by an ASP .80 fourstroke it was wonderful, both the sound and the way it flew was in one word: Excellent!

The Astro-Hog, originally designed by Fred Dunn in 1957, and now kitted by Sig (USA) and Flair (UK), is highly recommended as a first low wing model. It's easy to fly and good mannered,which makes it ideal to learn basic aerobatics like inverted flying and using down elevator while inverted in a roll etc.

I never crashed the Astro-Hog which in it self is a testimony to the nice flight characteristics of the model. I sold it to a friend, who in turn sold it on to a club mate.

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	I started flying in our back yard which is a small field with pines, birches and other nasty stuff on the sides. Somehow I never managed to hit these objects during a take off (hand launch), but only occasionally while flying...
Here is a pic of me "going solo" for the first time. I crashed three times that day. Usually in these early days of my flying I flew a flight or two, crashed, spred the bits out on the kitchen table, then reassembled the model, and was flying again after four days or so. Poor quality scan from 1995.

		I learned inverted flying the hard way... My Goldberg Cessna was seriously nose heavy, and wasn´t able to fly inverted, and I panicked and just waited for the ground to jump up at it! The Cessna was never repaired, and my next model, the P-40, was also my first own design.

		I built the P-40 to 1/12:th scale. I cut it out from foam and covered it with brown paper. It flew, and it flew fast. I did one short flight which ended in a successful landing. The next few bad hand starts resulted in a broken fuselage and I binned the project. Of course the P-40 wasn't the ideal step up from a stable high wing aileron trainer. And also, not the best structural design either.