RE: 2012 Hog Bipe rides again
Hey guys, I flew the Hog Bipe again today... when I throttled up for take off it slightly touched the prop... I have never had this happen before but it was slight and there was no obvious vibration so I went ahead and flew her around, I was amazed to find that it is capable of knife edge flight! it has a bunch of roll coupling that I wasnt expecting but I found if I eased the rudder in I was able to counteract with elevator and ailerons easier. I am seriously considering moving my landing gear forward at least an inch, when I landed a near the end of the roll out it nosed over and destroyed my expensive APC prop. I might be able to counter this with elevator but I am landing on very smooth concrete so any other surface would only be worse. The Bipe is fun to fly and looks good in the air, I cant say enough good stuff about the OS 95AX, it is a good engine. Overall, the airplane flies a little heavier feeling than thought it would but not terrible. I had tamed down the ailerons and actually will need to hot them up a bit more next flight. I would have flown it more than once but I didnt have my extra prop with me, my LHS shop doesnt carry 15 inch props so it is an order only item which sucks but I will order 2 or 3 of them next time. I think it would be a very easy mod to move the gear forward, I would just need to make another doubler and drill it for the gear and Monokote where the gear was, it just nosed over way easier than it should have, my wheels roll ok but could be a little better... might look into that before I move the gear.