Now I am really confused! With my setup when the elevator goes up both ailerons go down and when the elevator goes down both ailerons go up. When doing an inside loop the up angle on the elavator forces the tail down. The downward moving aielorans create more lift forcing the noise up. Why wouldn't this create a tighter loop? If this not true why are all master class stunt ships using coupled elavator / aileorn setups? The bigger question is considering that real aircraft never do it this way does such a setup hurt your flight realism score. Am I to assume that most all control line scale aircraft have non functional (fixed) ailerons? Remember I am talking stand off scale not pricision scale.
Hi John,
The flaps will help your model because it is heavy. The elevator is probably large enough to over come the downward pitching moment that flaps produce. With them as large as they are, they would not have to deflect very much.
I wouldn't bother, as full points aren't a problem with the regular options. At 8 pounds the model probably won't do a loop in the room available. No sense in wrecking it.
You can build your next one just like a stunter and it'll loop.
Weight must be kept down. Materials (four to six pound balsa, ply firewall, bellcrank mount and gear mount ONLY[yeah that ply spar, spruce stringers and bass whatevers, and fibreglass anything just have to go!]), etc) and control system (two micro servos, one throttle and one smoke, tiny batt pack as tip weight, no extras) must be lightweight.
Two pound motors are out, too. This is C/L. Use a 60, make your own lightweight muffler. Then it'll loop without flaps and be fine.
With C/L, weight is the enemy if one wants to acro. You must throw out everything that doesn't need to be there. R/C paradigm is totally different, leave it at the R/C field. Ask the Stunt guys what to do in the construction. Over 85 oz and it's not going to loop.
Scale guys build pretty heavy, so they are a great help with the systems, but the weight is the Stunter's area of expertise. If you want to acro in scale, you've got to use both C/L areas to get there, Stunt and Scale. That R/C stuff is baggage in the circle, leave it home.
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Chris...