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Old 12-31-2002 | 02:15 AM
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Man, make a post, walk away for a couple hours and the thread explodes.

No radio problems here, might be now due to crash damage but not before. Low to moderate speed, right after takeoff, dials in the ailerons, and poof, aircraft snaps to opposite direction, classic accelerated stall. Coulda, mighta saved it with rudder but you have to be really quick and know to go for it. The tip situation probably didn't help and while I mentioned adverse yaw, its probably no biggie (but didn't help either), and is just one more on the heap. Actually, on a flat bottom airfoil on a power plane, it can be quite bad, particularly on planes like the Carl Goldberg Eagles. The Cg situation was the major factor here, unfortunately, its one we can't really explore anymore.

Comparing real AgWagon to model AgWagon characteristics isn't necessarialy valid but is fun for shooting the breeze.