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Old 11-26-2006 | 10:36 PM
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Default RE: 130 Flaps

Well, I too am now 4 engine qualified. I was falling behind in posting the remainder of the building photos, but I think this is more interesting. The Baltic Air National Guard.

Hang onto your seats! It weighs in at 22 lbs dry, 23 1/2 lbs wet. O.S. .32 sx's with my custom made flying 4-bladed props. Need 15 degrees of flaps to lift off, but she's got good power. Lands very easy at a nice high angle of attack at flare just before touch down. Four succesful flights. Needed about 5 clicks of up elev. trim. I think 2 deg. negative would have been just right. I had put in the -1.5 deg. in the stab. but it's good enough. Thanks guys and also Jim and Randy for the great tips.

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