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Old 03-27-2007 | 11:51 AM
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Default RE: DH108 Swallow Maiden!

John,

Excellent project and outcome. I really enjoy seeing jet aircraft of this vintage as I have done the DH-100 Vampire and DH-110 Sea Vixen in all wood designs and I'm in total agreement with Rob that it is ALWAYS good to see that projects like this are being designed and built by MODEl BULDERS in the true sense of the term.

I watched the video which rellay shows the stability of the design and was very surprised to see the flaps. They appeared to work just fine with the noted (expected) pitch influence.

I'm currently working on a scale Northrop wing project and the factory drawings clearly refer to a flap however, it could not be used as such in the truest sense as the test flights reveled but was then relegated to use as a pitch trimmer during flight only.

Best of luck with the 108.
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