well after about 3 weeks of down time, i finally got my UCD in the air again yesterday. if everyone will remember, i was the first guy to have the horizontial stab/elevator break off in flight. my stab is now solid balsa with two spruce strips for spars, it won't break again!! and i needed some weight back there anyone to get my cg back some. i'm around 5.125 now with no cowl or wheel pants. will move the battery back some more when i put the cowl on and try it around 5.25 back.
as for the flights, i had one of our more experienced guys fly it for me (just in case) and with a little trim input it flew fine. he flew it 2 flights, loops were very light using only elevator input on medium and high rates with no snapping. ailerons were a little too low on low rates but great on medium and high rates. knife edge on low rate rudder was easy with little or no coupling. went to high rate rudder (only two rates on rudder) and it did a snap roll. i think i'm going to make low rate even lower and bring down high rate some too. i've got around 70 to 75 degrees deflection on rudder for high rates. landings were slower than my students trainers. actually i thought landings were a little hard, its a HUGE difference than my AW 90 size edge.
vertical with my 91fx was good, i'm running an apc 14x6 and the engine still has a long way to go to get broken in, so hopefully that will improve. if not, i will probably go with a ys 91fz or maybe the ys 110 will come out!!
will try much more this weekend, only got 4 flights last night before it got dark.
tony