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Old 07-26-2005 | 12:42 PM
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I have my mix at 4% on elevator and 9% on ailerons.. on straight ke it will hold without any other correction. I actually don't have any problems until I do a loop and I have to correct the ailerons on the top/far side of the loop and again when it comes back down to the bottom to go level. That is where the ailerons go nutz and it is hard to hold it. The elevator seems to stay pretty constant.

I have not really tested the diff between high alpha and high speed ke flight though. This was all trimmed for 1/2 to 3/4 speed ke flight with no aileron or rudder correction. I have it on a multipoint mix, but, just never have taken the time to adjust the low end. That is probably the whole issue.

Some of this I was going to try and trim it out, but, I am grounded for a period. Broke my muffler tube when I tried to drag my tail on the ground coming down in a harrier. The engine burbled on me made me hit hard enough to break my prop and muffler tube. It was loud!! I was lucky that was all that was messed up.

If you have windows xp.. windows movie maker has a really easy way to convert your camera footage to a wmv file. You can capture in dv quality and then save export to wmv quality at about 340k. It comes out really nice and small for web sharing. Usually you can just use a usb connection which most new cameras and computers have. Sometimes the camera will only have rca outs or firewire.. then you have to be lucky to have a computer that has one of those inputs or have to buy a firewire or video capture card. Try for the usb though..that is the best chance.

You use spoilers in ha ke flight or flaperons? It seems flaperons would turn it faster than spoilers?

My old ucd used to harrier better than this one. I think it was b/c I poored epoxy mixed with alcohol over a lot of the wood to make it stronger.. also made it heavier. I am thinking about adding about 1 lb of weight right on the cg to see if it will harrier better.. needs less lift.. heavier wing loading I think.

Do you have a picture of your stall strips? Where did you get these? Or did you just make them?