Last year (2009) - Tboltrc.com Test Pilot “Bullwhip” performed some taxi trails on his 119″ Wingspan Cessna Skymaster.  Here’s a link to the original blog post.

Unfortunately, due to the “gremlins” this airplane didn’t maiden last year.  There were a number of problems:

• Fuel delivery
• Cracked Wing spar (the original spar wasn’t strong enough)
• Balance issues
• Linkage setup issues
• And of course - getting both engines to run right together

Fast forward one year later - after lots of testing and tweaking - the Cessna Skymaster was finally ready to for a maiden flight!

Here’s a short video of the initial take off:

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Here’s a pic of the Skymaster on the approach for the first landing:

Cessna Skymaster

Overall the plane flew great - it’s very stable.  It needs quite a bit of runway for taking off and landing, but that to be expected for a plane this size.

Congrats Bullwhip!!  Great job!

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