ORIGINAL: BillS
ORIGINAL: buzzingb
This may sound strange but after helping an older man get a plane to fly with an underpowered engine, I have been thinking of this as a challenge and want to give flying a larger plane with a small engine a try for myself.. We did everything possible to get that plane in the air and finally it flew. I found that the hardest part was getting it into the air and once you have altitude you can fly as normal, without stunts of course. My question to you is have you experienced this? I was thinking of getting a plane with plenty of lift and just trying to see how small of engine would fly it. For example, a 40 size trainer and maybe a 15 or 25 size engine. If you have experience lets hear about it.
No need to change engines. All you need to do is to adjust the throttle linkage so the engine will only go to 50% throttle and fly the airplane.
The experience will teach you a lot about flight.
Bill
I agree will bill limit your throttle. I have a ball with my Sig SR , our club has 400ft sod grass runway and a 350 ft paved I love to long ROLL takeoff and see how LOW of a throttle it will take and still get lift off. It takes 200 ft or so at only 4 clicks above idle on a 72 satio 4c, this long an slow throttle take offs and landings have really help all my over all flying on all my planes, theirs nothing like SMOOOOOOTH..............when your in the mood........