Took the finished strega out today to show the guys and one of em just had to put it in the air.Powering it with the megatech m-46 engine from the old trainer with a 10x5 apc prop.This thing is freakin fast !!! All went OK ,I flew it on the buddy box for a couple tanks. Then he done some actual pattern stuff with it that was cool.

My questions are 2 it wants to tail up and bounce a bit on take off any way to actually remedy this? Second It lands really fast, it does not like to slow down at all unless your real smooth its going to try and bounce.

I have no plans on landing the thing myself anytime soon but I have the option of using the flaperon settings..Should I have one of the guys help to set this up to help it slow easier ?

My personal experience with fast airplanes is this : At first they seem impossible to slow down. But after becoming more familiar with them I learn that I can indeed slow them down. And often more so than I would have first believed possible.

So technique is often the answer. It may take a little time to become familiar with the airplane and to develope the technique of slowing it down.

Some radios have an air brake function that is switched, you might try that. I would experiment at a very high altitude whatever you do.

I have some familiarity with that airplane, there are over twenty of them flying locally and I have mentored many of them into the transition to that type airplane as well as warbird racing which it excells at.

The reason it suffers from the bouncys is when the main gear is used in the stock way the wheel footprint is far to far forward while its true this will help prevent noseovers but it also will make landing smoothly almost impossible. Much better to learn to use the elevator to prevent noseovers and bend the gear back to just behind the leading edge. This will indeed make a hugh differance.


Using flaperons will almost certainly contribute to an early demise of the airplane. Its not a trainer, it does not fly like a trainer and its unwise to try and make it fly like a trainer. Much better instead get someone to mentor you through the transition rather than just fly it once and cut you loose. Its a great airplane and an ideal first warbird do not try to make it something it is not that is always a mistake.


These are my two and some of the rest of the pumpkin patch.

John

thanks guys i will have lots of help


nice,very nice