RE: Bad Super Stearman
He has a 46 on it... The CG is dead on... Trust me, the wings are pointed up bigtime, not just a few degree's... more like 10 ! My Stearman and Super Skybolt are within 2 degree's of the stab. Even the side view in the manual shows the wings and stab aligned pretty much. If what your saying is true, about his plane, then there's no point in the side view pic at all... I could make my Stearman and Skybolt commit suicide if I added 8 or 10 degree's of positive pitch to the wings also. The plane was not built correctly, and if we just added weight up front to correct this problem, it would have so much drag on it, it still wouldn't fly, and the faster you went, the steeper it would climb. Look at any plane going by at speed, level... the wings are close to level too, no pointed way upward. When we set the wings level by raising the rear of the plane, the fuse is pointed down drastically ! We just don't want anyone to but one of these things without knowing what to look for before they try flying it and crash. You cannot fix incorrect wing incidence with weight, and come out without lots of drag in the air, and this one is way too far off to even concider just adding weight. Lots of things get made wrong ocassionally, somebody put the ting in a jig wrong, or whatever, but these ARF are not inpervious to the same mistakes. I can take a side pic of his Stearman, and I guarantee that you will agree with me. The wings are not even close to reality !