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Flair Puppeteer 35 years to first flight

                                                                                    Due to a long time friend just a Few of weeks ago given   8 weeks   and with luck a little longer,   Dick a former member of our flying club   had started a Flair Puppeteer 35 years   ago, and due to life's pressures   never got it finished,     Through a friend  & former club mate  Brian Wright, he   asked if I would be able to complete   so he could see it fly; I collected it   a nicely made airframe complete with many years of loft grime,   model was almost complete except for ailerons and the   connecting   of servos to flying surfaces   the   fitted   "new at the time" Skyleader equipment still worked   fine so I changed the   Skyleader servo   plugs   for futaba plugs   & radio to 2.4 so that I had   failsafe function ..   The OS 52 fs   engine I degummed fitted a 12.5 X 5 propellor   & got it   bench running again after all those years,   changed out the fuel t