Good insight and I will surely get there at some point. I am still feeling out this plane as its TO and landings are much different then when it had tricycle gear and the handling is much different than the Aeronca 7ac I have been flying. One thing I did during the rebuild was to make the tail larger and use the P51 profile. The vertical stab is slightly larger and I added 2" top to bottom aft on the rudder. I am quite happy with the modification as it seems to have the authority I had hoped it would. Another thing I noticed is that I am almost exclusively using differential braking to taxi with a little pedal assist. The Heel brakes make that an easy chore. Another good decision was to install the Grove (Cleveland) calipered disc brakes. These are very effective and can hold the plane at full throttle. Oh and I initially had a solid tailwheel too. That lasted only one flight and I quickly changed it to a pneumatic one. Learning as I go.
Craig N886MJ (N51CW) > On 09/26/2022 5:59 AM CDT colin hales via KRnet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a decent pneumatic tail wheel and tail wheel steering is excellent and > that means full power can be applied immediately. This actually decreases > take-off distance quite a surprising amount as the tail wheel lifts earlier, > reducing drag from the wheel and profile drag reduces also, which is the main > benefit. We have all seen aircraft trying to drag themselves off the ground -- KRnet mailing list [email protected] https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet
