Originally Posted by learn2turn

I search this forum on "air brake" and found this thread. The finishing and all the machining technique is way more advanced than what I could do but I like the idea.

My Monolog 1.6m tends to land really hot. It doesn't bleed off speed. And at my club, I have to approach over 60-70' trees, have 400' to glide, and then a 400' grass runway. I see at least two planes a season go into the trees on approach because the pilot misgauged altitude or range so I always leave some safety room and then I almost always land way to fast.

The Monolog is a low end plane with parallel sides. I'm running through my head how I might be able to build something like this as all I'd need is a straight rod through the airframe. Maybe just monocoated balsa and a 3-5mm carbon rod and 12g servo would do it. Might make a fun project if I can just get my bench cleaned up enough to do some work.