fozjared
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Joined: 7/1/2007
From: gilmer/nacogdoches,
TX, USA
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finally got to fly her with the floats! it has been windy as i have ever seen it around here for the past several weeks, plus rain and hail and thunderstorms.. just rough weather, but today was a beautiful day!
i flew her off of a local lake, with a super place to float fly. got up the first time and take off was fairly smooth, but i got some altitude and it started undulating all over the sky, i got it back into normal flight, but it was very sensitive to ANY control input, so my first thought was tail heavy.. i got it leveled out and added in some down elevator which seemed to help steady her, then flew almost the entire tank out. brought it in and it landed beautiful.. the second flight ~10min later after i checked the cg and it checked out.. take off, fairly smooth flew up about 25' off the surface and it started the pendulum procedure, the floats were wagging the plane around and the wing wouldn't hold it in the air so i pointed the nose to the water so i would have control as it was about to stall, had a semi rough landing with no damage, but i don't think i like the way it flies with the floats, it's like the tail is wagging the dog.. the gentleman that was with me out there has been flying rc for more than 3 decades, he and i both surmised that the clipped wing cub combined with the floats being a little large for the plane (floats are 41.5" and the plane is a little over 50" from spinner to rear tip of elevator) caused the wing loading to go up quite a bit more than expected, but also that the shorter wing had less resistance to rotation than the full wing would, and that the full wing would fly those floats much better! if anyone has or knows someone that has the great planes piper cub .40-.61 size and crashed it but the wings are ok and would like to sell them, please pm me.. that is if the wingset is the full wing.. thanks!
otherwise, if someone has flown the clipped wing with floats and knows some way to correct the pendulum effect please advise, thanks! otherwise i am looking for a used full wing to put on this plane. that way i could just pick the wing i want to use, clipped wing with wheels and full wing with floats!
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