Re: First Flight Challenges
> take the plane up for hours on the first flight and fully explore the flight envelope
Actually, that seemed to be rather a conservative first flight, and nowhere near exploring the boundaries of the flight envelope. The Flightradar24 link shows the plane at about 10,000 ft and a groundspeed of around 200 kt for the majority of the flight, only on the last couple of legs did the throttles get opened a bit, up to 400 kt, and there was a brief excursion to around 28,000 ft.
Contrary to statements in The Fine Article, I saw no evidence of looping. Now that would have been an exciting first flight!
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