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Old 04-09-2004 | 10:27 PM
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Default RE: SPOILERONS

Hi BRUCE! The guys in the PROFILE BROTHERHOOD have talked about using spoilerons from time to time to dampen wing rocking when the wing panels are taking turns stalling in high angle mode. I don't know if they leave the function active through the whole flight routine or not, but I just leave it on all the time now. I need to try it out on a more conventional layout like the original HALFWIT. Strangely, the last few times that I have attempted to use flaperons on scratch built models, it has been a bust. It sure does wonders for a CL stunt ship. I'm beginning to think that you need a special combination of things before under cambering the wing with flaperons will create more lift than it does drag. The most successful use of flaperons I have ever had was with a MORRIS SUDOKOI. The plane flies like a trainer until you hit the switch, then it becomes a 4.5 pound, 2 horsepower furball! BTW, when I refer to flaperons in this context, it is implied that it is flaps coupled to the elevator, out of phase. I got into a huge, and very stupid argument in the beginners' forum a couple of months ago about it's pure meaning, until my typing finger was bleeding. The literal meaning has no useful function ,IMHO, because coupling the flaps to the elevator will help keep a plane from pitching and contribute to smoothness when settling an over weight model in for a slow, flap assisted landing.