Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
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Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THE Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2? When it will be availalbe. If it flies well with a DA50? Any info would be greatly appreciated.[img][/img]
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RE: Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
This is right off their website:
Kits are in transit and we are accepting pre-orders at the introductory price
The kits will be arriving in early December!
http://www.ne-aero.com/giles_mx2_arf.html
Kits are in transit and we are accepting pre-orders at the introductory price
The kits will be arriving in early December!
http://www.ne-aero.com/giles_mx2_arf.html
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RE: Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
I happened to be at the field when Ed Alt flew the prototype/sample a few weeks back. It was powered with a DA50. Ed was flying, offering comments, John was taking notes. It was a windy day and the model was flying a bit tailheavy, so it would be hard to draw conclusions on a plane that still needed some trimming. I was sufficiently impressed to put in my order, and was told to expect delivery in December. I expect John will come up with some good set-up notes when they're delivered.
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RE: Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
Thanks for the Info - One more quick question. If it was tail heavy, was he able to hover it with ease using the DA50, and, pull straight up and out of the hover?
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RE: Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
I don't recall seeing any attempt at hover/pull-out. This was at a pattern event, tacked on at the end of the contest. Mostly pattern & IMAC guys in attendance. The most exciting part of the flight demo was the landing, which was dicey because of gusting crosswind. I believe he went around three times and finally got down on the fourth attempt. I will say power with the DA50 did not look like it would present any problem, but I am not big on hovering myself. That said, I am thinking to power with either a G-62 lite or a ZDZ twin 80, two engines without an assignment at the moment.
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RE: Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
There is some new video footage up on the our web site at http://www.ne-aero.com
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RE: Northeast Aerodynamics Giles MX2
Yes, the first flight I made on the MX-2 after that contest was with a fairly tail heavy condition, at least for the way I like to set up the feel of things. I liked the handling much better after we put the CG further forward. Different strokes for different folks I guess. With the CG further back, it tumbles better (as you might expect), so Waterfalls were tighter than they were after we moved the CG up. Keep in mind I've been flying mostly Pattern for the past 3 years, so I have more of a feel for that type of handling than when I was heavy into IMAC. RE. the gusty crosswind landings, I didn't do so well with my own airplane that day either, which was set up with spoilerons to help with conditions like that. It was just a set of challenging conditions that day with an unfamiliar setup that I didn't want to dent up.
This past weekend I had a chance to put in two more flights on the MX-2 and got to explore more of its capabilities. There's really no issue in it's handling for takeoff or landing. It's the same thing I always go through when I get handed someone elses airplane. I like the idle at one speed, the owner likes it somewhere else etc. Little things like that you get used to after a flight or two sort-of melt away and then you can get down to business with the airplane. I didn't do much hovering with it, but I can tell that it's very capable. I almost never take someone else's model down into low hovering stuff. I did do a fair amount of 3D rollers, upright and inverted harriers, blenders etc. It does those well. Inverted Harriers are clearly more stable than upright, which is a common behavior. We didn't get a chance to try it, but the normal thing to do for better upright stability is to reflex the ailerons up with a condition switch. It didn't bother me enough to make that change, I just flew it and it was fine.
The rudder is very effective and it will knife edge loop quite well. You might need to add some up elevator mix to make that maneuver a little less workload, but it's personal preference. John had a condition switch to do that, but I didn't use it and got through just fine. The video has me bailing out at the bottom of one because I'm a chicken with other people's airplanes. I am rusty right now and I don't take chances with other people's stuff! John didn't catch it on video (even though I thought at the time he did), but it does really nifty flat inverted turns. There's a manuever that a guy named Perry Genovese used to do at our local IMAC contests when he flew free style that I like to copy sometimes. It's a flat inverted turn at speed, with full outside tumbles thrown in during the turn. It did those very nicely. Some models "wind up" and want to keep on tumbling when you release the elevator and aileron while holding rudder to keep the flat turn going during the tumble recovery. The MX-2 didn't do that, it just kept turning the way I wanted it to. Cool stuff. BTW, a DA-50 is more than enough power for this model.
This past weekend I had a chance to put in two more flights on the MX-2 and got to explore more of its capabilities. There's really no issue in it's handling for takeoff or landing. It's the same thing I always go through when I get handed someone elses airplane. I like the idle at one speed, the owner likes it somewhere else etc. Little things like that you get used to after a flight or two sort-of melt away and then you can get down to business with the airplane. I didn't do much hovering with it, but I can tell that it's very capable. I almost never take someone else's model down into low hovering stuff. I did do a fair amount of 3D rollers, upright and inverted harriers, blenders etc. It does those well. Inverted Harriers are clearly more stable than upright, which is a common behavior. We didn't get a chance to try it, but the normal thing to do for better upright stability is to reflex the ailerons up with a condition switch. It didn't bother me enough to make that change, I just flew it and it was fine.
The rudder is very effective and it will knife edge loop quite well. You might need to add some up elevator mix to make that maneuver a little less workload, but it's personal preference. John had a condition switch to do that, but I didn't use it and got through just fine. The video has me bailing out at the bottom of one because I'm a chicken with other people's airplanes. I am rusty right now and I don't take chances with other people's stuff! John didn't catch it on video (even though I thought at the time he did), but it does really nifty flat inverted turns. There's a manuever that a guy named Perry Genovese used to do at our local IMAC contests when he flew free style that I like to copy sometimes. It's a flat inverted turn at speed, with full outside tumbles thrown in during the turn. It did those very nicely. Some models "wind up" and want to keep on tumbling when you release the elevator and aileron while holding rudder to keep the flat turn going during the tumble recovery. The MX-2 didn't do that, it just kept turning the way I wanted it to. Cool stuff. BTW, a DA-50 is more than enough power for this model.