MOVE IT - TEST IT - FLY It
The time eventually came when the project was ready to leave the garage and go to the airport to join its relatives.
Once it got settled in it was time to do 'weight and balance' and it was ready for some final testing and tuning.
And then the first taxi run. The excitement was building. But it took some work to install ballast up front to get the CG (center of gravity) into the right place when there was only the pilot in the airplane. I installed some removable lead weights.
Things progressed, and it was time for some high-speed taxi tests; on the actual runway. Cool!
65 KIAS (knots indicated airspeed). Fast enough to lift off if I'd pulled the stick back. Things went well; that was cause for a little joy.
