From: Andy Blackburn
Date: 4/1/2004 3:35 AM Pacific Standard Time
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In most aircraft the phugoid mode is pretty lightly
damped and has a period on the order of tens of seconds,
so the speed can build up a bit before the nose comes
up. Are you sure that's not what you're experiencing?

Could be this is true, I have never let the glider have it's way for long
enough to find out what the trim speed will be if I let it go. Something for a
future test flight....maybe.


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Mark Navarre
2/5 black ace
LoCal, USA
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