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Old 04-20-2004 | 07:34 AM
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fockewulf37
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Default RE: Tail Incidence

Thank everyone for your responses.
Well I took the Ju-88 out htis last weekend to a fly-in that had a really large run way. I have really been stressed over this horizontal incidence. It was late in the afternoon with only about a 5 mph headwind. I rechecked everything out on the plane. I went ahead and put about 4 clickes of up trim in the elevator to help counter act the incidence. I did several fast taxi runs and the tail came up fine and the plane became light on the wheels without any trouble.
I finally set the plane up on the center line slowly advanced the throttles. The tail came up she tracked straight down the runway and lifted into the air. The plane had plenty of power but it was not fast. Gear came up fine. She trimed out with about 4-5 more clicks of up. It rest of the flight went fine. The plane had no attitude change with the addition of full flap. It come in really nice and slow with full flap. The landing was really gentle but i still had one of the gears fold back. I am using the Robart rotating retracts. The plane was so low that ther was no damage. Overall I am really please with the first flight. I had hoped to have in flight pic's but I have not got the from My friend yet. I'll post the later, If he got them....

Ty
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