Four flights on the micro habu before dark tonight.

I flew the first flight with wheels from the parking lot in the schoolyard.  Did not like the wheels on flight, seemed slower than I expected and the nose pulled down quite a bit on takeoff when power was added.  It did track straight and climb out ok.  did a couple of landings which were bouncy.  my fault. Lots of light posts and trees so could not fly it low and in close.

took the wheels off and went out into the soccer field. Now I could fly it in close and down low where it shines.

It appears to be slightly faster than the mig, hard to tell though as I haven't flown the mig in a while.  Had great climb and definitely had more authority in the loop over the mig which was always a bit lazy in big loops.

exactly the same flight time (3 minutes) with batteries after flight reading 3.7 with no load.

one the second flight pulling out of a loop, the battery departed the airframe.  I continued to fly it which of course was useless. LOL

Since I was pulling out of the loop, the elevator was stuck in about a thirty percent up position, and the now very tailheavy airframe did several steep noseups into a stall each time, but almost like I still had control the final one of those resulted in a dead on belly landing.  not a mark on it.  the battery although out in an open soccer field took some time to find.

then we will see you in the morning. lol

That UMX Habu is awesome Al... I did pick up a couple more batteries, but no fear I did not pick up a Habu today as tempted as I was...  It was a windy, but fun day... Looking forward to doing it again...