3D Romeo
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From: Romeo,
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We were talking at the flying field today if it would be possible to make floats for these SPA3D's out of plastic Pop bottles...anybody ever try that out yet? 
Anyway, I got to fly my 32x32 SPA3D a bunch more today with an 11x4 instead of the 10x4 that I had the first time out. It pulled MUCH better! But I also found out that the OS 40FP that I swapped out for my old one wasn't broken-in quite as much as I thought it was. So it was running pretty rich. It wouldn't even let me lean it out...unless the 11x4 was a little bit much for it. In any case, I thought it worked great on it!
Didn't do much new today with it other than a whole bunch of Blenders that ended up in slooowly descending inverted flat spins (which I'm sure if you get it right will actually climb). The Blenders are pretty violent, and I couldn't get enough of them!
I also find that I can land this plane better doing Harrier Landings rather than conventional ones! So pretty much every landing today was the Harrier type! As a matter of fact, allot of my last flight of the day was spent just Harriering the thing all around the field before settling her down. Now that I feel more comfortable with it, I plan on bringing it down a few feet more next time and try to do some intermittent tail touches while harrier around! Should be fun!
***I need some advice on a weird flight characteristic I noticed on mine***
I was going to try a Rolling Circle today and noticed that when I roll inverted it will loop out of it hands off! I've had planes that needed a slight amount of pressure to fly inverted, and others that were neutral needing no pressure at all to fly inverted...but I never had a plane that continued upward into a loop after rolling inverted! I know that it's probably do to the amount of down elevator I got dialed into it to keep the nose from pointing upward while flying around. I don't think my CG has anything to do with it, because I'm just about at the spar (maybe one flute back at best). Is this normal on these planes or do I need to adjust something differently? Will increasing the amount of up (+Spoileron) in the Ailerons help this? I adjusted them up more since the first day...but maybe not enough? Instead of having the top of the aileron parallel with the bottom of the channel I have the bottom corner of the aileron about even with the bottom of the channel now?
Other than that...I can't wait to fly it some more! I flew it at a different field today, and I think at least 2 more people want them now! That's at least 4 converts now in only 2 trips out!!!
Sorry...having to much fun to take time adding stickers! 
< Message edited by 3D Romeo -- Aug 31 2003 7:52AM >
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(QHOR & SPA3D plans here) Wing with no spar and no ... - 
. I am a toolmaker and I carefully measured all of the components for wear. Result - NONE!!! Even the most worn measured within a few tenths of the new one! Sorry to make you trudge through all this, but I'm saying it to say that I'd bet it all that your FP is fine still. Maybe your clunk got pushed forward or some dirt got lodged in your needle orifices. At any rate, I bet it's fine (unless maybe you hit a rock or something). If your low speed needle was fine before the doink, it should not have needed to be changed. Heheee, I have an FP on my PBF too and I love it. Mine are all getting pretty old, but I was glad to find that I think they will be good to go for a long time.
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