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Old 08-12-2011 | 02:31 AM
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Default RE: What is the function of crow?

ORIGINAL: Gordon W

I still have a Fox Composites Hawk (about 50oz/sq ft loading) that would do the same thing until I applied my cure. The cure in both cases was not to use crow, which made no difference to that characteristic, but to droop the ailerons.

Gordon

I can not agree with that, i have the same Hawk, with crow it is beautiful to land, with landing flap only, it is not so nice.
I am a convert to crow, as are many of my friends, just works really well, and the Ailerons being up (about 5mm), tends to remove the need for any elevator trim with landing flap.
I have the same setup on the Goldcat 44, once again, tried it without, it would not land, just kept floating on, crow solved it in a moment!

Drooping the ailerons is dangerous from my experience, causes early tip stall.

Paul G
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