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Old 09-12-2006 | 10:50 AM
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Default RE: SeaStar Test Flight

The TwinStar has a few degrees out thrust built in. I have been told and they advertise that it flies fine on one engine so I gave it a try. I hardly notice the effect of the little out thrust it has. In addition, the rudder is small so I ended up holding a good bit to control the yaw.

Another reason I didn't put in my usual 8 degrees is I would have had to cut off a cheek cowl. I don't know, but the seaplane configuration seems to show the effect of an engine out more so than the land config. I thnk I'll go ahead and put it in, cheek cowl or no.

jrf showed me a photo of his TwinStar on floats with a larger rudder. I'm also going to do that.

And I'm going to fix the covering-it's all peeling off. Does anyone have one of the newer TwinStars with iron on covering that has it staying on? First my trim started peeling off, now it's everything.