Alasdair, thanks a lot for sharing your experience with us on the North/Loch Stars..! I am pleasantly surprised to see you brake with the canard but a bit puzzled that the nose does not pitch up violently during braking..?!?..is much compensation needed with the elevator/elevons when braking like that..?? Borrowed one of your pics from the N.S. mods thread where both elevator and elevons appear to be close to neutral..?!
As a swede I cannot help but comparing with our JAS 39 Gripen which also brakes with the foreplane but "the other way around" and on the ground.
Very little - if anything - on engine downthrust in the "N.S. mods thread" - what do you use on the Loch Star..?
OK, I will try to persuade my friend to convert his N.S. to use elevons....Cheers/Harald