geneh,

I like the way my Reaper flies for the most part. I had some "issues" originally with the landings. I guess that I had the CG too far aft. The airplane flew fine until you got slow for landing then it became almost uncontrollable in pitch if a gust of wind upset it. Then when it finally "arrived" on the runway, it would bounce and hop. I moved the CG forward and put a weaker spring in the nose strut. Now it is a dream to land...real slow. Also, if you do smack it on, the nose doesn't bounce back up...the airplane just "sticks" to the runway.

I modified the elevators. There are no balance tabs anywhere on my Reaper. I widened the elevator 1" at the root so that the trailing edge is now perpendicular to the fuselage side. I don't think that this is necessary for landing since I land on low rate (80%) elevator and never run out of control. I made the inner portion of the trailing edge of the wing movable. I have a condition set on my Futaba 9Z to give me "crow". This gives me "up" aileron on both ailerons with down flaps on the inner portions. I haven't landed with this yet. The last few times that I've been to the field, there has been a good headwind and crow was not needed. I can also mix the flaps with elvevator, but I haven't played with that much. The Reaper is a very smooth flying airplane.

Regards,


John