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Leadout position for overhead fuselage tangency?
Alan Hahn:
--- Quote from: phil c on October 13, 2009, 03:41:46 PM ---I had a model with a serious line tension problem overhead. All the usual tricks did nothing. I finally got fed up, sliced the fin and cranked in an unscientific rudder offset of about 15 deg. It made a tremendous difference in overhead line tension and did not cause any other problems that I could seee.
An adjustable rudder, or a Rabe rudder should be included in every stunter for those times when "going by the numbers" doesn't quite work out.
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The rudder does a lot of good at slow speed---as long as you can stand it during the rest of the flight, and the prop is putting a good breeze over it. It reminds me when I was a student pilot practicing power on stalls---you need a pretty heavy right foot to keep the nose pointing the right way.
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