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Is there a way to stop tail wings stalling and making your plane incontrollable?

235k jamesPLANESii  7.8 years ago

I'm working on a plane right now and when you pull up all the way, the nose pitches up violently while the plane keeps going in the same direction, and this isn't possible to get out of unless you pitch all the way down, and sometimes that doesn't work and it goes into a spin. I've tried making the tail wings a semi symmetric aerofoil but it still does it. Help?

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    @IAmMeObviously I'm pretty sure what it actually was was I used a seperate wing for my elevator control surface and the plain part of the elevator. When you do this, the control surface and plain wing fight eachother until one reaches critical AOA and stalls. Because the control surface was bigger than the plain portion of the wing, the plain portion stalled and siddenly jad much less lift, and hence the plane suddenly pitched violently upward. Also, because a part of the tail plane had stalled, the CoL shifted forward infront of the CoM, causing an unrecoverable stall.

    29 days ago
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    I'm very late lol, but this is caused by the main wings stalling. Your wing loading is too high and the wings aren't able to change the momentum of the aircraft. Either make the plane lighter or make the wing lift scale larger (liftScale)

    29 days ago
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    15.1k Rodrigo110

    Ok cool great! Just the system that I use often works (it does end up adding lots of weight though!) @jamesPLANESii

    7.6 years ago
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    Yup! @Rodrigo110

    7.6 years ago
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    15.1k Rodrigo110

    Oh, BogdanX fixée the problem then? @jamesPLANESii

    7.6 years ago
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    BogdanX was right. @Rodrigo110

    7.6 years ago
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    Nope lol. @Rodrigo110

    7.6 years ago
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    15.1k Rodrigo110

    What you have to do is put more weight in the front of the plane. This spinning happens because the weight in the back is significantly heavier than the front, so when you turn it gains momentum and throws the plane off balance. Just try and add more and more weight in the front until the issue is resolved

    7.6 years ago
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    Eh. But it isn't realistic... :/ @bigpurpledragon

    7.6 years ago
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    If you are still wondering, sometimes I put on a gyroscope with no controls and lower the power and speed down a lot. It works well with non-acrobatic planes ;)

    7.6 years ago
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    @Thepilot172 You go to forums, go to whatever kind of forum post you want, and at the top of the posts there will be a "New" button in yellow. press that and everything from there is obvious.

    7.8 years ago
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    What I always do is to make the control on the horizontal wing about 2/3 of the lenght of the wing and half of the lenght of the ends of the wing.

    7.8 years ago
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    22.9k Dann810

    Try to reduce the lift or you can move the CoM farther from the CoL.

    7.8 years ago
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    Ok. @BogdanX

    7.8 years ago
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    At high altitudes, yes. But it's controllable enough. @BogdanX

    7.8 years ago
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    3,742 bluecomet

    smaller pitch control surfaces?

    7.8 years ago
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    Yup! XD @EliteIndustries1

    7.8 years ago
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    No. They're slightly further away from each other than on my usual planes. @Alienbeef0421

    7.8 years ago
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    55.4k Beefy

    COM/COL too close?

    7.8 years ago
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    61.9k Mal0ne

    When this happens to me, I add more weight to the center of the fuselage

    7.8 years ago