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Old 10-08-2003 | 06:20 AM
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Default flaperons on a biplane

I bought a used HPI racing biplane with a symetrical wing design. Excelent flying plane. I have been playing with flaperons on my big stick and like what it does to th elanding speed. I decided to do the same thing to the bipe. The bipe reacts much differently to the flaps than the stick. When deployed on the stick in the down position the plane wants to lift, on the bipe i deploy them downward and the plane dives for the ground. I can compensate with up elevator to stabalize it but it seems backwards to me. If i switch the flaps up to spileron then it goes up. With that much aleron surface is it pionting the nose up and down orsomthing strange? Can you use flaps with a bipe wing design? All i really want is to slow the landing speed down a bit, this thing really comes in hot and falls fast when you drop the power back. Any thoughts would be helpful.

Sean