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Old 01-27-2017, 12:18 PM
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There seems to be a general consensus that they will snap or tip stall as it were, more easily than others. It gets pretty hard to fix after building because is is a fully sheeted wing. If you followed the plans and built in the correct amount of washout in the tips you should be fine. Warbirds in general need to flown to the ground like a real airplane and if you are used to floating in a trainer or sport plane you are going to have trouble with it. You need to maintain enough speed to keep the aircraft flying until just before touchdown. Practice higher speed landings with a sport plane until your comfortable with approaching at a higher rate of speed and using the throttle to manage the landing speed and the elevator to control the stall point. You want to maintain forward speed until just before touch down then chop the throttle and feed in the elevator until she settles onto the runway. You don't need to come in like a rocket but you can't float it in. Good luck.