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Old 08-20-2004 | 02:49 PM
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Larry @ SR
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Default RE: Pull/Pull vs. Pushrod on SR Eindecker

My intention was to design an aircraft that you'd want to fly every weekend rather than once a year at a special event such as Rheinbeck. So, I went to ailerons instead of wing warping and elevators instead of all flying stabs. The outlines of all of the flying surfaces and the fuselage are dead on, but I did enlarge the horizontal and vertical stabilizers. I also changed the airfoil. We simply know more today about what makes an aircraft fly well than Anthony Fokker did in 1915. Oh, I also changed the method of shock absorbing in the landing gear to make it easier to produce.

Larry