RE: Shark XV Build Thread
Dave,
As the proud pilot of one of the smaller Shark's, this bigger brother is a really beautiful airplane. One the smaller one, I finally got the bugs worked out of my BigMig 0.049...now getting 19,000 RPM out of it with a Cox rubber duckie prop! It just sings.
On a related note, my 0.049 version is unthrottled, and I found a trick for making hand launches a bit easier. I trim the airplane for a steady but defined climb off the handlaunch. However, as the readers will know, were I to leave it this way, the plane will want to climb dramatically as it picks up speed. Rather than re-trim, I programmed in nose down pitch trim with increasing throttle. That way, my left stick becomes a separate trim slider. The nice thing is that when the power quits, all I do is pull the left stick back to idle, taking out the mixed elevator, and I'm trimmed pretty nicely for landing.
Can't wait to buy a couple S-XV kits....
Frank