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Old 12-17-2006 | 03:29 AM
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piethein
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Default RE: Skygate Hawk

ORIGINAL: jetpilot

Ali,
Nice meeting you also.
I was especially waiting for your reply.
I was a bit worried of people experiencing any flutter. Has this been any problem with this gigantic airplane? I woould think with the 160 that noone would be having problems, but a 180 might be too much for the large flying surfaces.
Thanks for your excellent reply.
Scott
Hello all,

From this link you will find a 40MB video of Stefans test flight in 6th JWM, where he had a fin flutter. I do not have info, that what caused the flutter, but I think others closer to Skygate in the forum might know the details. I believe Stefans plane was finished quite late to the competition and sure believe the problem has been solved for the kits.

Stefan had P-160 for power and in the video you can see one pullup, where he was a bit late in the throttle, but it just shows how slow it flies, if need to be.

http://www.neutro.fi/img/volker_training.wmv

It is truly a great flying plane!!

BR,
Jussi