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Old 02-14-2014 | 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Rodney
You are going to love that plane. I had a Quadra 72cc on mine and it was a ball. I did enlarge the rudder a great deal though, at least double in size and beefed up the landing gear to handle the weight of the engine. I found that the upper wing needed to be at about 1.5 degrees LESS angle of attack than the lower wing for best flight characteristics. Just a minor difference in the relative incidence made a big difference in how it flew.
Are you talking about the same size plane as gizmo? He's putting a 23 cc and you had a 72 cc? I over power my planes, but that's insane.