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Ken: I got a ride in the "SparrowHawk prototype" at Arlington. (I believe
it was a Groen modified RAF) I was told that the real SparrowHawk would have a bigger fuselage and more room. I couldn't tell if my feet were on the rudders or not. The bird seemed to get in the air nice enough and when I got the controls, I still couldn't feel the pedals so I just flew it around with the stick. Boy!! I've got time in a few stick control aircraft, Benson, Aeronca, T-34,T38, Safari, Bell 47, Brantly B2B, and flown the Carter Copter simulator, but I've never felt a stick control like that. It felt like the coil springs from a car were in series with the cyclic. The ship responded but it felt like I had put an order into a massive weighty servo system. I didn't have much feel of the stick causing the bank rates. The Bell 47 with a crusty hydraulic cyclic boost has better control feel. We did encounter a good thermal and the ship just rose smoothly like an elevator without any interference from the pilot. Also power changes didn't seem to cause any pitch disturbance. But boy!! what a stiff control feeling. I got on the ground and crawled into a stock RAF and the pedals on that thing setting on the ground required more pressure than anything I've ever flown. I don't understand the requirement for such high control forces in such a small aircraft. If the RAFs are all like this I can understand why it was causing some students problems. With or without the HS and center line thrust. Stu Fields "Ken Sandyeggo" wrote in message om... (Badwater Bill) wrote in message . .. True. If you have to fly rotary-wing, a gyro is simpler. However there have been an absolutely amazing panoply of fatals in those. Most of them totally preventable. It's mostly due to the tucking since the center of thrust is above the CG and the drag component of the rotor system is way above the CG. When you do a negative g pushover or even hit a bump that does the same thing, you take away the drag. The thrust dumps you over in a tuck. Bill, hope you didn't mean ALL gyros. My Groen converted gyro is centerline thrust and their new kit will also be CLT. Air Command also has a CLT ship. You are correct if you meant almost all gyro fatalities are in those gyros with a high thrustline. RAF is one of the worse and they still don't see the need for a horizontal stab....a "contraption" according to Don LaFleur. Ken J. - SDCA |
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Bill, hope you didn't mean ALL gyros. My Groen converted gyro is centerline thrust and their new kit will also be CLT. Air Command also has a CLT ship. You are correct if you meant almost all gyro fatalities are in those gyros with a high thrustline. RAF is one of the worse and they still don't see the need for a horizontal stab....a "contraption" according to Don LaFleur. Ken J. - SDCA Sure. That's what I meant. I know the problem is with the hight thrust line. The CLT gyros are probably some of the most stable and safe flying machines ever built. BWB |
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