Was out flying my Goldberg Electra last night. Getting braver, and tried
flying in something more than a flat calm. The breeze was maybe 5 or 10
mph, and there was a little bit of ridge lift comming over the top of a
small rise. With maybe 1/4 power, the Electra would just hover motionless
about 20 feet up, for a minute at a time! What a hoot!
I did have one nasty surprise: I'm using the Futaba 4NBLE radio, the one with the electronic speed controller built into the receiver. It works great, but... the radio has a thermal cutout, and when you operaten at low power levels for a while, the regulator chips heat up, and the the protection circuits shut down the motor. So, it was quitting about halfway through each flight; I had to land, let the receiver cool off, then launch and run the rest of the battery charge. Think I'm going to put in some
