K5083's a flier. Low power trials (about 1/6th max) and initial trimming yesterday.
I managed to get footage of one of the very early flights without dropping the camera or getting nothing but sky :
Room for improvement.As is typical I have no footage of the better flights (I really do need a third hand for the camera), but if you're considering building a kit Hurricane at this sort of scale (1/24 to 1/32) then Andrew Darby's design for VMC flies more or less off the board which is impressive for a small low-wing monoplane model.
There'll be the usual trim adjustments to make as I bring the power up and, as I feared might be the case, I'll probably have to lose the spinner* to get a reliable freewheel and therefore a decent glide phase. Not obvious from that video, but on the later flights I could see the wind resistance kick the prop back against the motor at the end of the power run and act as a socking great air brake turning the glide into a dive.
*It was obvious when I built it that room was tight and the shaft was occasionally catching on the inside of the spinner preventing freewheel so I'm not as upset as I might otherwise have been.