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Old 04-26-2012 | 07:31 PM
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otrcman
 
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Default RE: super decathlon fin

The resolution on the video isn't quite good enough to be sure, but it looks like you started your takeoff roll holding full up elevator. Do you know if you ever released the up elevator ? It also looks like the plane came off the ground still 3-point. That's another indication that you were holding a lot of back stick. If so, then the airplane simply stalled as it broke ground. Notice how steeply it pitches up immediately after liftoff. And notice how the airplane yaws right in addition to rolling right. Those are all classic indications of a stall.

The greater incidence of the right wing panel would normally try to make the plane roll left. But if you stalled it at the moment of liftoff then the plane would roll right, as it definitely did.

Keeping the stick back for the initial takeoff roll is very common technique to maintain better heading control. But keeping the stick back at too high a speed is deadly. If you are heading into an 11 mph wind, then you probably don't need to hold the stick back at all. The airplane will head into the wind naturally.

Dick