Terry Rigden

Count me in Terry

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count me in Terry 

It would be very nice if I won this one Terry 

Add my name to teh draw too please Terry Rigden 

I have one and its a frustration machine.  Control is intermittent and vague at best.  Sometimes it ignores control inputs or it just drops out of the sky.  I've spent a lot of time trying to trim it but the trim varies as the battery runs down.  Flying time is a couple of minutes at best.   Dont waste your money Terry Rigden 

Roger  Yes I enjoyed it immensely.   Maybe because it reminded me of my slope soaring days but now I live in flat Suffolk  Regards Terry 

Yesterday I flew my 14" span 23gram model outside in fairly gusty conditions and provide I kept it upwind and fairly high it was quite OK.  The air was smoother above 15' and landing was "Interesting" and I had to keep "flying" the model while it was on the ground while I walked over to pick it up  The trick is to keep it pointing into wind like a slope soarer I routinely fly a 300 gram 1 mtr span model in winds up to 15MPH  and I find its not so much the wind speed that the limiter but the amount of turbulence. Regards Terry  

Does it use standard channel allocation ie Ch 1 L/R  Ch2 forward reverse Ch 3 throttle  Ch 4 yaw.  the reason I ask is that I fly mode 1 and would like to use my own Tx Regards Terry 

Tony thaks for the links and yes they do support your definition of the term. However it seems that with the demise of the biplane that the term had changed its meaning - I still hold the view that the original use of the term is to describe the difference in the angle of incidence of the two wings of a biplane. But modern (mis)use of the term has changed it meaning much like "wicked" now means something is good. Regards Terry Rigden

NO declage is the difference between the two wings on a biplane. the difference between the wing and tail is the wing incidence. Terry

A lot depends on what sort of flying you are doing and the wing sections used. One shcool of thought is to set the lower wing at a higher incidence so that it stalls first. The drag from the stalled wing gives a nose down moment and helps recovery. Typicly used on a trainer with flat bottomed wing section like the Tiger moth Other people set the top wing at a higher incidence and alledge that it helps with snap manuevers. Often used for aerobatics with a fully symetrical section say on a pitts I set my aerobatic bipe up with the two wings at the same incidence. So its stall charecteristics are the same upright and inverted. I dont think a dgree or so either way makes a huge difference. Regards Terry

I have a non scale open cockpit biplane and find it looks much betetr in teh air since i put a crudely carved pilots figure in teh cockpit. Close up it doesnt look like mich but on a low pass the "lump" in the cockpit improves the effect. I would upload a picture if I could figure out how. Regards Terry

True but who is going to do something ?most of the stuff is made in the far east where its a free for all. I fear no progress will be made Regards Terry