So, I flew my plane on Saturday. I had 4 flights, and didn’t crash my plane a single time. In fact I even ran it out of fuel mid-air once and successfully made what is called a “dead-stick” landing. All in all a good day.

I went back out today and had 4 more good flights today. However, I noticed a funny sound coming from the airplane during some high speed flight. It alsmost sounded kinda like helicopter blades beating against the air. They call that “flutter”. It’s when one of the control surfaces on the airplace starts to reverberate during flight. After I got home, I checked the airplane over closely and found that the elevator had a loose control horn that could cause flutter. In addition, I found that the servo that controls the ailerons had actually broke some of the wood around the servo mount, which could also cause flutter and was likely the cause of the occasional odd movements of the plane I noticed today.

So, I’ll have to repair the plane before flying it again. I’ve already fixed the loose control horn, now I just have to fix the broken wood. It shouldn’t be too bad to fix, just a little difficult to get to on an assembled plane. Then I’ll go fly again.