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Old 03-07-2011 | 06:09 PM
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Default RE: Before the Brushfire there was...

Sorry this isn't very timely.

The flaps were maneuver flaps and moved down with up elevator and up with down elevator. They were intended to make square corners sharper. They worked, but the second Brushfire built without them squared corners almost as well. Since they added weight, we dropped them.

They were never for snap rolls. Snaps were enhanced by using a thinner percentage airfoil at the wing tips and by sanding a much sharper leading edge on the outboard third of the wing.

Congrats on your rendering of the original paint scheme. Very nice!

Ken Bonnema