Hey everyone, welcome back to the flight test podcast this week. I'm your host, James, and today we are talking all about designing your own aeroplanes.

A few weeks ago, I was joined by flight test community member Nick Lechner, a prominent member of the forums, a many-time featured author on flighttest.com, and the original creator of the FTMIG-3. On the podcast, we talked about what it takes to actually design a flighttest.com and the original creator of the FT Mig 3.

On the podcast, we talked about what it takes to actually design a flying machine of your own

and Nick's experience of Flight Fest, Texas 2018.

With that being said, let's jump into the podcast.

Music Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm joined by Nick Lechner.

Is that how you pronounce your second name, Nick?

I can't.

Yeah, it's German, right?

It is, yeah.

Most people don't get the CH right, but you did good.

I think, yeah, i think i know that because

um oh i've learned that because i i've got it wrong previously but uh yeah uh thanks so much for coming

on how are you doing thanks for having me no i'm doing great yeah i'm glad to be here good good and you say

you're away on a on a business trip at the moment in california yeah yeah i had a last minute trip I had to do before Christmas,

so. Right. Yeah. Cool. So I think, yeah, we're actually recording from very different parts of the

world, quite, quite a distance, but yeah, it's nice to hang out over the internet. Yeah, and talk. Talk about RC planes. So yeah, maybe what we

should do to start with is just, do you want to run us through like, you know, your, how you got

into the hobby and, you know, what you've been designing up until this point? Because I think a lot of

people will know you from the forums and everything this point because I think a lot of people will know you from

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