[NSRCA-discussion] pitch

[John Pavlick]

See, now that's how things get out of hand. I never said anything about
making it perform like a pattern model. That was something you guys came up
with. Come on, the next thing you'll be telling me is a Kaos is not a good
pattern plane either.:-)  I was only curious about what caused this in the
first place hoping maybe I could use that knowledge to trim out pattern
planes in the future. Hey, at least we all had something to think about for
a while...

John Pavlick
http://www.idseng.com

BTW - What Stuka are you talking about? I have a flying buddy that keeps
urging me to fly warbirds but I just can't get too excited about them after
flying pattern planes. Now if I had one that flew like that Stuka you've
described, I might be able to have a little fun with him.



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  One of the better knife-edging models and pretty fair all-around sport
fliers in recent past was.... of all things, a Stuka Divebomber with slats
fully deployed. It was an ARF (which annoyed me to no end....).

  It had this tiny fin with all rudder area above the stab, and a wing that
was mounted to the very bottom of the fuse and with a bunch of dihedral. It
showed virtually no roll couple and no pitch couple with either top rudder.
It would slow roll and point roll from horizon to horizon. Designer was
either very lucky or had pattern design experience in spades. Only faults I
found was its inability to do clean snaps and easy stalls.... rudder was
possibly too small and stab too large for its wing

  Point is there are many ways to skin the kitty.

  But I must admit, trying to make an UStik knife edge and make it perform
like a pattern model is a little like putting lip-stick on a pig. No offense
intended to owners of UStiks; these model types have their place.

  The designer of the original UStik for those new to the sport, Phil Kraft,
pattern competitor extraordinaire, intended the model for testing equipment
and not much else.

  regards,
  MattK


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