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Old 03-22-2003, 01:06 PM
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Azarr
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Default Full Flying Surfaces

Originally posted by Deanoo
Yeah, I'm thinkin eventually full flying wingerons!!!!!
I actually did this with Dan Stevens Stickit V. Dan did the initial design and I ended up moding it some. The tail was non moveable and the wing was rotated for both pitch and roll, with the pivot right on the CG. Two Futaba heavy duty coreless servos in each wing, with some creative mixing in the transmitter.

There were some "minor" problems. Without a moveable tail the loops were too large to be competitive. The rolls however, were unbelieveable. You had to see it to believe it. Faster than any comp fun fly roll I've ever seen. It rolled so fast it actually made noise pushing all that air around. Stopping the roll; however was another story, lost servo gears just about every time so the project was scrapped. It was a fun experiment though and it's still on the back burner waiting for one of thos e "roundtuits".

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