[RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing
I'm just finishing a Queen Bee (it's sort of like a Zagi with a pituitary problem-span is 100). It's a three piece wing, with two servos in the center section and one in each of the two detachable tips. The plans call for connecting the outer elevons servos with a Y cable, but I thought it would be interesting to run each servo on a separate channel. I want to see what will happen with crow mode on a flying wing. I have mixed rudder to aileron in the V-tail mode. The inner elevons work just fine, but the outers function only as ailerons. While there may be enough elevator authority with just the inner surfaces, I'd like to have all four surfaces mixed to control pitch. Any suggestions how best to do this with the Stylus/Glider Card? TIA, Joe Parsons RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing
Joe, You don't need much pitch on the Queen (I have 3 control surfaces and would recommend 2 instead) I have my flaps and ailerons mixed - as well as full flap and crow mixing. I use a Superslim and have everything on separate channels. Send me a glider card and I will put the program on it for you if you want. Also, the Queen is great to fly, but a bitch to land, even with my big flaps and full crow. Wait until you start adding the weight to balance it and you will see it gets pretty heavy. Likes 8+ winds and is comfortable in 15 to 20. Tom - Original Message - From: Joe Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: [RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing I'm just finishing a Queen Bee (it's sort of like a Zagi with a pituitary problem-span is 100). It's a three piece wing, with two servos in the center section and one in each of the two detachable tips. The plans call for connecting the outer elevons servos with a Y cable, but I thought it would be interesting to run each servo on a separate channel. I want to see what will happen with crow mode on a flying wing. I have mixed rudder to aileron in the V-tail mode. The inner elevons work just fine, but the outers function only as ailerons. While there may be enough elevator authority with just the inner surfaces, I'd like to have all four surfaces mixed to control pitch. Any suggestions how best to do this with the Stylus/Glider Card? TIA, Joe Parsons RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing
Hi Tom-- Thanks for the quick response! I'd love to send you my card, but I've got a fair amount of flying on my agenda the next few weeks. I've set everything up on separate channels as you have (I am using a 6 channel Hi Tech Electron). It sounds like I'll have plenty of pitch with just the inner surfaces, from what you say. Wind is coming up in Livermore--12 gusting to 16--so it should at least stay up. And you're right about the weight--it takes a LOT of lead to balance that sucker! I'll program in a bunch of crow an see how it goes. Thanks again. Joe Parsons At 01:46 PM 6/11/2005, you wrote: Joe, You don't need much pitch on the Queen (I have 3 control surfaces and would recommend 2 instead) I have my flaps and ailerons mixed - as well as full flap and crow mixing. I use a Superslim and have everything on separate channels. Send me a glider card and I will put the program on it for you if you want. Also, the Queen is great to fly, but a bitch to land, even with my big flaps and full crow. Wait until you start adding the weight to balance it and you will see it gets pretty heavy. Likes 8+ winds and is comfortable in 15 to 20. Tom - Original Message - From: Joe Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: [RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing I'm just finishing a Queen Bee (it's sort of like a Zagi with a pituitary problem-span is 100). It's a three piece wing, with two servos in the center section and one in each of the two detachable tips. The plans call for connecting the outer elevons servos with a Y cable, but I thought it would be interesting to run each servo on a separate channel. I want to see what will happen with crow mode on a flying wing. I have mixed rudder to aileron in the V-tail mode. The inner elevons work just fine, but the outers function only as ailerons. While there may be enough elevator authority with just the inner surfaces, I'd like to have all four surfaces mixed to control pitch. Any suggestions how best to do this with the Stylus/Glider Card? TIA, Joe Parsons RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:55PM -0400, Tom Broeski wrote: | You don't need much pitch on the Queen (I have 3 control surfaces and | would recommend 2 instead) You really don't need much elevator on any of the flying wings. On the smaller wings where you only have two servos, usually people seem to end up giving them lots of travel (needed for quick aileron response) but dialing down the travel of the elevator (in their radio) to a reasonable value -- too much and they tend to immediately tip stall. This is pretty noticible on the Zagi clones, but it's really extreme on the short flying wings like the M60 -- properly set up, your aileron stick axis causes much more travel than your elevator stick axis. Sounds like having the outer control surfaces be aileron-only, and the inner surfaces being elevator only (or maybe aileron and elevator) might just be perfect. I wouldn't worry much about having the outer surfaces doing elevator functions too. | I have my flaps and ailerons mixed - as well as full flap and crow mixing. I'll bet crow is nice on that. The best way I've found to slow my flying wings down is to smack them into something. :) -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What luck for rulers that men do not think. --Adolf Hitler RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Stylus programming--Flying Wing
At 02:45 PM 6/11/2005, you wrote: Sounds like having the outer control surfaces be aileron-only, and the inner surfaces being elevator only (or maybe aileron and elevator) might just be perfect. I wouldn't worry much about having the outer surfaces doing elevator functions too. | I have my flaps and ailerons mixed - as well as full flap and crow mixing. I'll bet crow is nice on that. The best way I've found to slow my flying wings down is to smack them into something. :) We'll see. Wind is piping pretty nicely, but I just had some work stuff come up. Maiden flight will have to wait until next week, I guess. Slowing the aircraft against a hard object prolly works better on foamies than on glass slippers. My last casualty of that sort was tip stalling my Nemesis right over the road, landing on a passing bicyclist. She fell off her bike, but fortunately her fall was nicely broken by, uh...the Nemesis. Joe Parsons RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
