I couldn t wait to fly the TwinStar. I topped off the tanks, started the engines, pushed the butterflies aside and taxied out to the runway. I pointed the TwinStar into the breeze and slowly advanced the throttle. The model tracked straight down the runway without any rudder correction and lifted off after about 100 feet. I trimmed out the TwinStar with 4 clicks of up and 2 clicks of left aileron.
Landing is a matter of simply lining up with the runway and chopping the throttle.
My first attempt resulted in a very hot landing, since I didn t have the engines idled down enough. In subsequent landings with the .32s idled way down, the model settled onto the runway nose high and on its main gear. After touchdown, the nose settled quickly, and the model slowed down with no surprises. After a few landings, I tried deploying flaperons on the final approach. The use of flaperons provided the extra drag to slow the TwinStar to a reasonable landing speed with the more powerful .32 engines.