Bob Violett's Shrike...knife edge capability

What do we know about the preferred cruise speed of Bob Violett?

FAI World Champion with Telford (pretty sure with Polecat), a very fast formula one model.

Vio-Jett ducted fan models which fly...very fast

Turbine powered scale and non-scale models...faster yet

Ever do a slow roll with a racing airplane...turns out a tooth pick at Mach 3.9 can knife edge pretty well.

My guess is that the intended cruise speed of the Shrike would allow it to knife edge fine...high alpha, probably not. Have enough rudder authority to fix a poor knife edge entry (if you were coming out of a 400 foot split "S").

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