orthobird
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Yes, it was. what a sight. it is still playing in my head like a movie. i flew her at the club, there must have been about 30 spectators/pilots. did it ever idle. i got her iddling at about 900 rpm. i brought my tach this time. WOT she was at 6000 rpm with a carbon fibre prop that was 32 inch diameter with a 10 pitch.
on the runway, i started at 1/4 throttle, once she was straight, i kicked it to 1/2 throttle and her tail picked up and then she lifted. i mmediately, i noticed she had tendency to want to roll to right and she wanted to climb, so i brought her up real high while i used my right hand to adjust the stick to compensate for this. once she was up high, i started to use trim, after 3 clicks for aileron and 3 for elevators, she was tracking straight.
i then flew her level for at least 2 minutes, just basic box pattern of flight. once i felt comfortable with her, and i was not shaking as much, i turned on the smoke pump and did a large diameter loop, where the smoke trail met each other. then i did several low fly by's and rolls. did a few knife edge with her real high, trying to see how much rudder i needed and seeing if she would drop from sky.
after this, which took total of less than 6 minutes, i said, i am going to land this baby.
did about 3 passes before finally deciding to land her, which was not a perfect landing, she was losing altitude fast at about 10 feet above runway, and i did pull back on elevator, but she bounced once. she did not have enough speed, and was stalling. i did not want to throttle her as i knew she may then flare high again. once on the ground, i was then able steer her back into flight pit lane. then i used kill switch to turn her off, and i began ispection process. no damage to her.
amazingly, the 52 ounce tank of gas was almost completely empty. don't think i would have made it had i tried one more go around to land her!! ouch!!! lucky me!
oce on ground, i noted that the elevators looked fine in the position they were in. don't know why she wanted to climb so much, but i had to give few clicks of down elevators. must be that i had the elevator neutral position with up elevator too much.
the rolling, i noticed that the right aileron position was lower than the root wing TE, and the left aileron was higher than the root wing TE. meaning, in this position, the left roll position was to counter her tendency to want to roll right. but then i did notice that the rudder was not in line. so i wonder if i could have adressed the roll with the rudder.
last night, i put her in the garage, and i split the ailerons within the receiver. there are 2 right ailerons servos and 2 on the left. all 4 were connected to the smartfly, where two were reversed and all 4 were equalized. so now, i put the left aileron on aux 3. and using my transmitter, i can adjust the right and left ailerons separately.
then using subtrim, i adjusted the rudder, and i have made both ailerons even with root of the wing TE.
let's see if she still wants to roll right on flight number 2. now if i remember correctly, if the plane rolls left, this could be an engine thrust problem. my bird has about 3 degrees right thrust angle built in to engine dome. maybe it is too much and this is causing it to roll right?
to be continued......
btw, are any of the revolver gang going to go to Joe Nall?
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RE: Larger Revolver - 
I called the store and it will be back on the UPS truck either late today, probably Wedns. It is definately a mfr's. defect, and I should not be expected to correct that, as I am sure most of us would agree. I do have an 
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