ORIGINAL: winglift
ORIGINAL: kellys1729
Hi
I have an EZ Beaton which I have had for a number of years, it was fitted with an Irvine 53, I thought of putting in retracts but to help keep the weight down I fitted a home made carbon under cart It flyes very well and I am sure it can teach you a lot. But a word of warning watch your slow speed as it does have a habbit of aileron reversal (I found out this the hard way is their any other) This happend when I was flying dead stick comeing in to land at height This reversal also happend to a friend of mine who is very experianced and competes in aerobatics, but he just told me thay it had some unusual flying charetistics As far as the YS goes this is a gret little engine but I think this will be a case of over power for this airframe.
Always fly two mistakes high
Wow! I am not familiar with aileron reversal. What causes it?
Probably what happens is that at low speed the aileron causes the wing to stall when used to a certain angle, toward max deflection.
The stick is moved to the right, left wing up, the left aileron goes down to raise the wing, the wing exceeds critical angle of attack and falls through fully stalled, the other wing is still flying by virtue of the aileron being up and effectively giving it a bunch if wash-out, and it looks like "aileron reversal".
My take, a lot of airplanes will do this at extremes. This model being small and heavily wing loaded makes it a good candidate.
Chris...
(I edited this because of a fundamental error in that I referred to the wing with the up aileron having wash-in. This is in eror, late night or something. Sorry if it led to any confusion.)