Saturday, February 27, 2021

More trim flights.

I remembered that increasing the overhang of the handle slows the control response. I also remembered that I never checked the engine thrust settings after I put it together. It needed the engine pointed down a bit and to the right a bit. I moved the elevator pushrod to the outer most hole. All that helped but the plane was too quick on the controls. I had an old handle that was adjustable for overhang and had less line spacing to work with. That really helped soften the controls. Overhang is measured from the grip of the handle, where your fingers touch the handle, to the attachment point of the lines. My favorite set up has three quarters of an inch of overhang and the one for this plane is about one inch more.

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