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Old 08-08-2007 | 12:58 AM
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Default RE: CAP snap

I have a 1/4 scale Matt Chapman Cap 232 (73 in wing span) replica by Hanger 9. I fly it with an Evolution GT-35 Gasoline engine. While it does not provide 3D power it flies pretty scale. I have been able to slow this plane quite a bit and not have the infamous "Cap Snap" I will disagree with da Rock in his statement that they are all pretty much the same. I use "digital mixing" for all of my maneuvers. I mix my digits on the two sticks and try to make the plane do something that makes the spectators go OOHH and Ahhh. So I do not use any computer mixing; (read as too stubborn/lazy to read my radio's manual). Thus the Cap 232's knife edge is very difficult for me. The main wing and the horizontal stabilizer are dramatically separated and I believe this causes my hard pull to the belly in knife edge flight. Where as my FuntanaX 100 and Funtana 40, with the mid-wing design putting the main wing and horizontal stabilizer more or less in-line, performs beautiful knife edge flight. So I have my first and last Cap but it has nothing to do with any Snap tendency... Ya know, they say the same thing about P-51's... probably BS too.