Tired Old Man
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From: Central, CA, USA
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OK, got to fly mine today and have the current weight. With wheel pants and the Taurus 52 it came in at 17lbs., 15 ounces. or 8.136 kilos for those challenged with the U.S. standard measurement system. I could lose 6 to 8 ounces by removing the pants if I really cared to, but it flys just fine as is.
This is going to be a really fun plane once I have it all dialed in. It hovered very well, and pulled out just great. Those that have a desire to know how great it pulls out should just get one because I can't define it any better than that. It accelerates vertical just fine from a dead hover and that's good enough for me. I had a little bit of pitch to the belly in KE balanced dead on 5-1/2" aft of the leading edge, and have to hold touch of "down" elevator when level inverted, so that's pretty close to a good C/G. Harrier rolls pretty good, but I haven't flown in 4 months so it prolly does it a lot better than I can tell at the moment. Did a 3D rate full up elevator pull and held the altitude and the 50 degrees of elevator. No other inputs other than rudder to hold a heading and NO wing rock was evident. Same holds true with a power on elevator, no wing rock, period. I did not lateral balance the plane. That stuff takes too much work and I'm just not critical enough to worry about it.
Tremendous amounts of aileron deflection are available for those that have a sadistic streak and really like to beat things up. Over 40 degrees if you want it. 50 degrees of elevator in both directions is easy to obtain, and still have some room to go if you feel you have to have more. You don't, it harrier rolls just fine at about a 30 degree aileron and in the area of 30 degrees of elevator. It takes just a tad more than 25 degrees of rudder in the high alpha rolling stuff to get it "just right". Slow rolls are stupid easy, and point rolls are even easier.
I'm not terribly happy with the engine performance at the moment, but everyone there, me included, feels that's due to an overly restrictive muffler. I'll be trading out the JA wrap around for a Bisson tomorrow. If you want a real quiet wrap around Pitts muffler the JA is the way to go, but from my current point of view I think you'll be giving up a lot of rpm to be quiet. The outlet pipes are much to small in diameter. Not much larger than the exits in a stock .90 two stroke muffler. You can only run so much fluid through a small outlet at a time.
With only three flights on the plane and a muffler that I want to toss my overall feeling is that this is going to be a FUN plane to take out on any given day. The version II flys quite a bit better than the original. I think I'll keep her 
< Message edited by Silversurfer -- 3/5/2007 6:25:05 AM >
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