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Old 02-27-2005, 10:25 PM
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foxflyr
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Default RE: Top Flite Contender

I received a partially completed original (20 years old) contender about 5 years ago and completed it . Powered by a 40FP inverted with a functional chin scoop as per the original. No flap, straight wing. On the original you had a choice to build it with either a straight wing or with a dehedral break at the joint between the ailerons and flap.Since the wing was 90% done i just added a slight upturn on the tip though not as much as on the new edition. With the staight wing it has some adverse roll coupling with the rudder. You can do a roll using only the rudder, the interesting thing is that it is opposite the rudder deflection. It makes control coordination for knife edge kind of interesting.
I also stretched the covering over the fin and body joint not easy but it does look nice. If some one tells me how to attach pictures i'll try to post them