RE: GP Super Stearman
Remember I said I had a problem with the plane climbing on the maiden flight. Before the flight I had checked the CG and it was right on at 5 ½ as the book recommends.
I just checked the incidence, the horizontal stab and lower wing were at 0 to each other. I don’t know how to check it in relationship to the thrust line; I’m assuming the saddle for the bottom wing is correct.
The top wing was about 2 ½ degrees down, at the aft of the wing. I think that is considered negative 2 ½ degrees.[sm=72_72.gif]
Here are some notes I took from this thread and a RC report.
This is from this thread...[:-]
I saw the RC Report and it's backward from what I experienced.
I initially raised my top wing ailerons as a temporary measure to alleviate the pitch change when going to full throttle and the abrupt stall upon landing.
The permanent fix was this:
1. Set the model with the stab horizontal at zero degrees
2. Confirm or change the lower wing to be at zero degrees also.
3. Set the top wing to be one and one-half degrees negative. This allows the top wing to be flying when the bottom wing is stalled.
Again I’m assuming negative means the wing is down at that aft.
This is from the RC Report…[:-]
The airplane was balanced with the CG set 5 1/2 inches back from the lead edge of the top wing. With the wing incidence set and checked, mine was at 2 degrees for both wings.
I’m not sure what 2 degrees for both wings means.
He later goes on to say…
The plane rose off of the runway rather nicely but then tried to climb. It seems that it required quite a lot of down elevator to trim it to level flight. In fact it required more then the radio could give it on the quick trim button.
He lands the plane okay but fails to say what he did about the problem he had with the plane climbing and having to put in so much down elevator. [sm=spinnyeyes.gif] One would think you would really not want to fly the plane with that much trim adjustment in it. Either the CG it off or the wing incidence it wrong, or maybe both.
Does anyone have any suggestions or input that make since.[sm=idea.gif]
Thanks,
Shubova
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