Re: Steering

From: Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo_at_iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:56:58 +0300

lcordes wrote:
>
>
> For those who read John Kagan's excellent treatise on steering in the
> July Model Aviation may have tried to access the steering video he
> listed.





Thanks for the video link. Most interesting.

What does the article in MA say (for those of us who are not members of
AMA)?

Also, one question about the video. It seems as if the model first flies
past the balloon cord so that the cord touches the LE of the wing, but
then the cord is pulled forward until it touches the prop, stopping it
but also the model is being pulled forward from the prop? And the steer
is then ended, by letting the model fly forward, freeing the prop, after
which the cord is pulled sideways away from between the wing and the
prop? Interesting! I've always thought that steering is done by slowing
one tip backwards, or by pulling the nose sideways, but you can actually
pull the model forward from the prop to a better location?


-Tapio-
Received on Sun Jun 28 2009 - 11:57:42 CEST