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P61 Black Widow at Lilydale

It was a bit blowy down at Lilydale today. Most were packed up by the time I got there. I did manage to get a couple of flights in. The first one went dead-stick because I'd left the throttle trim at zero so when I did a stall turn and cut the engine back to idle, I killed it. Had plenty of height and glided back easily to the field.
Later in the morning, someone came down with a scale P-61 Black Widow. It didn't get in the air while I was there. Here's some video of firing it up and taxi runs..

Here's a link to a torrent of this video. It's a 5MB xvid video hosted on my home machine so due to d'load limits, it's only up between midnight and midday. Someone please let me know if the link works. thanks.

Download p-61.avi

bi-plane take-off at Lilydale

I think this was it's maiden flight...