[gbanger]

Well the maiden flight went like clock work.
The only glitch was that I had to cycle the retracts twice to get them to go up.
Conditions were perfect with a clear sky and literally no wind.
I took Kierans advise and set the aircraft up at the start of the runway.
Throttle response was very impressive for such a large heavy aircraft, I am pretty sure it would have been in the air well before the pilots box but I let it run another 30 meters and it lifted into the air like it was on rails at a little over half throttle. A near textbook climb out and turned downwind. 2 click left aileron and 2 clicks down elevator and she was flying straight and level at about 100 kph.
I did a few circuits then a right and left roll with the big bird hardly batting an eyelid when asked to respond. I turned on a low pass and accelerated to full throttle. I recon Ecalc was right on the money with the top speed about 130kph. I did another big figure eight circuit and then throttled back, droped the retracts and hit full flaps, to my surprise it did not affect the attitude at all, I slowed down to about 40% throttle and turned for a test approach. It was not coming down, I droped the throttle to about 25% and it still held altitude, I went around and came in at about 10% killing the throttle completley as I crossed the foot of the runway at about 1 meter high. It floated to well passed the pilots box before it lost the battle with gravity and settled back on to terra firma slowly droped its tail and finally stopped at the far end of the runway.
Apart from the retract cycling. I could not be happier with the entire flight. Unfortunatley it is to heavy and needs too much runway for McCoy, but what a magic plane.
Hopfully George got some footage that he will post shortly.
Gazz