R/C Airplane Flight Characteristics

"Don Tuite" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:57:15 -0500, "Ralph the Red"
wrote:

Here's a good question. How come when you stall an R/C Airplane
and kick
full aileron at it you can't get a stall spin like in real planes?
I've
tried it with multiple R/C planes and never have seen anyone else
have it
happen. Is it a weight or wing loading issue?

What are you doing with the rudder? How abrupt a stall? How much
washout in the wing? How much dihedral?

Non-aerobatic airplanes are not that easy to spin either, for
reasons
implied above.


Having built and flown many RC model aircraft I will state that built
straight and balanced at 35% the MFA YAMAMOTO will spin easily and
come out of a spin when controlls are returned to neutral. The fun
really starts when a builder balances it far too tail heavy and it
spins onto the ground, seen that happen to a new Hi-Boy. The owner
was told repeatedly to get several faults corrected but still
returned to the field with the model tail heavy, the owner quickly
learned.:-)
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Don