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My Bearhawk is everything I hoped for and more. It was a good first flight. The acceleration on takeoff with 300HP has to be experienced. I thought I was doing a reasonable angle of climb, looked at the VSI and it was reading 2000 ft/minute. It was a cold, very calm morning, perfect weather. I was thrilled that hands off it flew wings level. I guess my building errors and rigging errors canceled out. Unfortunately, my rudder tab was set at too much of an angle and I was having to hold a lot of pressure on the left peddle. So much that my leg went numb after 20 minutes, so I landed earlier than planned. The plane is fast. At 7500' 135K true airspeed with 22MP, 2300 rpm. Other than the rudder tab just a few minor squawks. I did a full power runnup on the ground before takeoff. Had nearly 2650 rpm on the ground. I set the rpm back to 2550 before taking off and had 2670 when airborne. I reset the low pitch stop when back on the ground. At full speed the oil pressure was 105, my mechanic said it should be 80, so I adjusted that on the ground. A friend mounted his go-pro on the overhead tubing. Unfortunatly it quit recording 2 min after startup. Will try to get the take/off landing video that my wife recorded edited and out in a day or two. Didn't plan it that way but today is the 121st anniversary of another first flight.
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