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Re: First Flight 29 Nov 2013 23:34 #97

Rick,

Congratulations on your outstanding achievement! Your Carbon Dragon looks beautiful and ought to give you lots of good flying.

I flew the prototype during the testing program and did not notice the aileron non-linearity that you pointed out. You may want to set some control stops to reduce the maximum deflection a little. Since you mentioned that the down going aileron starts to go back up, your maximum control power will occur at less than maximum control deflection.

I noticed that your spoiler only deflected about 15 or 20 degrees during the approach to landing. Can you deflect it more than that? I noticed that the spoiler was not very effective at low deflections. I think the prototype would deflect about 35 degrees. Also, the forces on the control lever went up pretty high near maximum deflection.

Your landing looked a little long, but very smooth. Great job! Best of luck at Wallaby.

Dan Armstrong

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