At 10/16/02, David Megginson wrote: >Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > Your Wright flyer model is really starting to look sharp! Good > > work. :-) > >It looks great -- this is the first time I've tried it. With the >mouse, at least, it's also quite easy to fly -- I had to work hard to >make it overrotate.
From the wind tunnel test data, "up elevator" (canard nose up) does not very quickly lead to a big stall. But if you get the nose moving up, the instability will in 1-2 sec lead to canard stall. That the canard "power" is pretty weak (i.e. not very effective) is consistent w/ the first flight: http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/ Note the large amount of canard input. Regards, Michael >Jim: you need to make sure that the propellers are drawn last so that >they don't obscure the airplane in external view. If you name all of >the objects (so that you can tell which is which), you can rearrange >them in the *.ac file using an ordinary text editor. > > >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ************************************************** Prof. Michael S. Selig Dept. of Aero/Astro Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 306 Talbot Laboratory 104 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801-2935 (217) 244-5757 (o), (509) 691-1373 (fax) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/faq.html (FAQ) ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
