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Old 12-21-2007 | 09:23 AM
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da Rock
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Default RE: Bipe aileron setup?!

ORIGINAL: Insanemoondoggie

daRock , How much difference did this make , in the way your SkyBolt flies ?

I wish it was that easy.
There are thousands of Skybolts flying with that ARF factory rigging. I don't know a Skybolt owner who doesn't like his model.

I've never had mine surprise me. And I do know one guy who offered to let me fly his and followed that offer in the same breath with a few "warnings". I put it down to the rigging. I flew his and definitely felt it wasn't going where I expected it to in the quick stick maneuvers. That could have been the CG or the different TX setup or throws or a bunch of things. Snaps came out different places and such. When I was landing his, he kept telling me to keep the speed up. So I landed a bit hotter than I would have with mine. He flew mine and immediately wanted to know what servos I had because he wanted to get some like must be in the plane. He assumed right away I had digitals. He said he liked the way mine flew. I don't have digitals in the sucker, btw.

It's really not something that anybody with my skills is going to know for certain. I'm not a precision aerobatics kind of flyer (in R/C that is).

No way to prove something like this. Or even predict with any assurance how it'll show up in the air.

BTW........... The first time I saw this rigging design on an airplane I was building, I corrected it. So I've never flown my own biplanes with the lash-up setup. I've maidened a couple of other guys bipes and flown the Skybolt mentioned above a bit, but that's all. So I won't ever fly the "wrong way" setup enough to get a firm basis of comparison.