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Old 05-25-2010 | 03:30 PM
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Default RE: Nitroplanes tucano weight issue

The maiden is done!
This plane turned out to be my one and only favorite.
It has, believe it or not a nice slow landing speed
Without flaps deployed it has relatively high landing speed, With low flap setting it is nice predictable and slow.
With full flap setting it is almost hard to get down[&:]

The first takeoff went through with no input of elevator. It has to have some down elevator trimmed in to fly straight.
It also had a three blade 16*8 prop. This was OK, but it did not have the speed i had hoped for. I had the idle set too low which resulted in a bit hard dead stick landing.

The second flight was with a 16*10 two blade prop. This gave the high speed i was hoping for.
the landing went through with low flaps setting.

here is the video of the maiden flight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpBdoEcW4Q

I love this plane!!!!