Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender
- Thread starter Larry B
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Larry B
70cc twin V2
Thank you guys, there is no shock, I am getting used to crashing this thing. I am having serious second thoughts about the project and I realized from the start that it might not work out so I am not really upset by the crash.
I may have over looked one huge rule of the canard world, all the front flying surfaces are fixed with a hinged elevator. This allows the canard to have a fixed angle of incidence compared to the wing. With this "fixed" configuration the canard will stall before the wing allowing the nose to drop and make a recovery. What I have done with the full flying canard is to throw all this out the window, when down elevator is applied I am in effect making the canard have LESS incidence than the wing which in turn allowed the wing to stall while I was applying down elevator to try and get the nose down. I think the full flying canard may be a dead end for a safe flying model because of this, allowing the wing to go into a deep stall condition with the canard still in effect flying because down elevator is applied will always lead to disaster.
But I do enjoy the challenge!
Maybe I should just go back to one of these:
You all have a Merry Christmas also!!
I may have over looked one huge rule of the canard world, all the front flying surfaces are fixed with a hinged elevator. This allows the canard to have a fixed angle of incidence compared to the wing. With this "fixed" configuration the canard will stall before the wing allowing the nose to drop and make a recovery. What I have done with the full flying canard is to throw all this out the window, when down elevator is applied I am in effect making the canard have LESS incidence than the wing which in turn allowed the wing to stall while I was applying down elevator to try and get the nose down. I think the full flying canard may be a dead end for a safe flying model because of this, allowing the wing to go into a deep stall condition with the canard still in effect flying because down elevator is applied will always lead to disaster.
But I do enjoy the challenge!
Maybe I should just go back to one of these:
You all have a Merry Christmas also!!
Jetpainter
640cc Uber Pimp
Ugly Sticks give me nightmares. I flew a perfectly good FW190 through one once.