I'm not the best one to answer this but are they turning at all when
climbing ? If not a tab or a slight tweak of the rudder might get a bit
of turn in which may help.
Where are you flying and who are you ?
LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
In God We Trust
On Fri, 25 May 2007 03:47:42 -0000 "papadesign1" <papadesign1_at_yahoo.com>
writes:
> I have a dime scale "Midget Rocket" and a "Phantom Flash" that both
> do
> the same thing.
> When I first release the models at full power, the airplanse fly
> with a
> nice stable upward flight but as the motor runs down the airplane
> begins oscillating, going up to a stall then diving and recovering
> over
> and over. The Phantom Flash was doing smaller oscillations than the
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> Midget rocket. On the Phantom Flash I gradually gave it down thrust
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> till it refused to climb, and moved the wing back in various
> positions
> till it would barely glide. On the Midget rocket I gave it lots and
>
> lots of down thrust and down elevator so much that it would hardly
> glide, and it still is oscillating up and down.
> What causes this? What do I need to be doing differently?
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LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
In God We Trust
Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 08:17:59 CEST