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Old 01-13-2007 | 05:19 PM
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Default RE: Ground effect on a Bipe


ORIGINAL: Oldbob

New concepts have always been hard do accept. Others will prove it right or wrong. All I can say is that it worked for me.

I don't think anyone doubts that you have found a way to take off your airplane smoothly. What I think some people are skeptical of (myself included) is that it has anything to do with ground effect. Saying ground effect combined with a warp in the wing was causing ground looping (which is I believe what you have been saying) is roughly analogous to saying that the atmosphere caused your ground looping. I like to use what I know to be true to explain something I don't immediately understand. If holding right aileron (and/or adding a trim tab) helps me take off, then I likely either have a trim problem, a warped wing, or propeller torque is greatly increasing the weight on the left main wheel during the takeoff roll, causing directional problems. These are all well known and understood phenomena - have been for many decades.