ORIGINAL: BillyGoat
I truly appreciate the input so far. My original thinking on this is in line with Dick’s, that any lift generated by flaps will be negated by drag.
Negated if you don't know how to use the throttle.
Flaps are used day in and day out to improve landings. Of course, full scale boys know that the throttle still works until they shut down the engines.....
Too many of us in modeling try to figure out all our problems and issues with just one thing. We seem to need one-liners. Most problems don't have just one answer that's one dimensional.