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Old 10-21-2004 | 06:24 AM
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DBCherry
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Default RE: Someone please explain 'Slipping' for me...

Good descriptions.

I've slipped my Cub a few times, but never all the way to landing. It's definitely a relatively difficult maneuver to do with RC.

We had a club member (hasn't been around for a couple years now) who use to slip his clipped wing Cub in so nicely that I loved to watch it. He'd start about a 100 feet above the runway and two or three hundred feet out. He'd enter a slip that appeared to put the plane at about a 45 degree angle to the runway and it would drop at nearly a 45 degree angle. Then he'd ease out of it and set it on the runway perfectly. His roll out would be about 5 feet.

It's certainly possible to do, with a LOT of practice.
Dennis-