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.
The pic looks like it's 50 years old, but it's a bad scan from about 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 to be honest, the fuselage and wing were too weak.

The Astro-Hog was in fact a perfect first low winger! Powered with 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 with its sedate manners it's ideal to learn basic aerobatics stuff 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 to a buddy...

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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. The pic looks like it's 50 years old, but it's a bad scan from about 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 to be honest, the fuselage and wing were too weak.