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Old 04-14-2008 | 10:27 PM
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Default RE: Is a lot of elevator needed to rotate, typical of heavier wingloading?

Thanks again for the additional comments. I may get a chance to fly it again tomorrow.

Interesting point about the long nose and it caused me to think perhaps the fuel load has greater leverage than typical and as others have pointed out, with greater wing loading comes more distinctive effects of fore and aft locations. I don''t recall what size tank it has, probably a 14 0z. I may try a half tank and note any difference. it was of course balanced with no fuel load and all of the landings were with a fair amount of fuel left. I didn''t set a timer and certainly didn''t want to run out of fuel and it has been many years since running a .60 size glow engine.

I did get altitude and test for any tip stalling nastiness with elevator at slow speeds and did not get any in both normal and position one of the flaps. It can be induced to do some brisk snap rolls and recovers from them easily with neutral sticks. I didn''t spin it as it was getting dusk and I want it way up there when doing that the first time.

Will report more after flying again.