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Old 05-22-2006 | 09:00 PM
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Default RE: Wing Loading and Vertical Performance

Meant to fly with new lower weight, but bad servos and then bad weather got in the way. Was able to get some flying in today. New lower weight was great. Greatly improved vertical. Not too noticable in speed during level flight. But, vertical is a lot better. Before, it would slow during the upper part of IMAC maneuvers making control mushy and required lots of input to fly a line. Now, the plane drives through the upper parts of maneuvers and is much easier to control. I can now go vertical almost unlimited, whereas before it would slow to almost nothing after approx. 300 feet.

I can't put any math on this reply, just that 1 pound less in this case has made a big difference. I guess one factor is how overweight was the CAP in the first place. In this case, I feel the CAP was just overweigt and losing that 1 pound made a difference. If the CAP was 2 or 3 pounds overweight, I probably would not have gotten the same results.

Thanks for all the reply's, Bob...