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Old 01-28-2007 | 10:20 AM
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Default RE: 85" Cap

Well I got a couple more flights and the Cap yesterday. She flys very well and does harriers great.

I have my CG sorted out.. I ended up getting a CF stab tube and I was still border line at the 4" mark with my CF spinner so I went and put on my Al. one for now. Right now it sits in the middle of the range.

I have the up and down thrust correct finally.. still needs more right thrust. Hovering wise it seems pretty stable.

I do still have one issue that is bothering me and that is teh fact that it still needs a fair amount of down to fly. Orig. flying at half throttle and chopping it the cap would jump up.. now it does a smooth glide path and when I get on the throttle it just moves forward.

I am sure it's not perfected yet because the flying with down el. is gong to change things when I get taht fixed.. but it's a lot better than before and the massive coupling started to go away. I mixed rudder to el. so that the el. was neutral in KE and the coupling is basically gone.. so I know when I get the last of my problems fixed I should have a great flying plane.

Going to check incidence today.. safe to assume it's 0 and 0 ?