Before flying it, you must use the best song for aerobatics

I absolutely love the look of the "Heron" variation although its too many parts for my potato phone...beautiful nonetheless

I actually used this plane while testing smoothing for fuselage blocks.

Color me surprised. The cardinal is so well constructed, and with so few parts! I am thoroughly impressed!

@BogdanX, you are correct in that, generally, most aircraft, especially older aircraft using cables and pulleys instead of hydraulics, do “fly” the control surface into equilibrium to achieve the trim effect. There’s a good discussion here, in the Smithsonian Institute’s Air & Space magazine article on the subject. But...not so fast! There are exceptions to most, if not all, things, and this is no exception, so to speak. There is something known as an “antiservo tab”, which looks a lot like a conventional trim tab, but it’s function and purpose is different than what a trim tab does. An antiservo tab actually prevents a control service from being moved too abruptly, helping to prevent pitch excursions which may result in a loss of control. These will generally move automatically with primary control input, i.e., pull back on the yoke, elevator/stabilator moves up and antiservo tab moves further up, helping to increase control loading and deaden the input to a degree. But that’s the vast exception to trim tabs, and, in fact, isn’t really a trim tab at all, more of an opposite trim tab, or “antiservo” tab and would not have a separate trim control, instead working automatically opposite to any yoke inputs. So, yes, I would agree with your assessment that the trim tab is probably opposite from how it would be arranged IRL and if it was meant to be an antiservo tab, it’s controls probably aren’t how they would be set up IRL. However, I blame myself; I test flew this build prior to release and never pointed it out. Control deflection wasn’t initially as great as it is now (increasing the throws was one of my recommendations to the catbaron), and the surface actually cleverly blends into the checkerboard paint scheme, so I totally missed it. My mistake. That’s what I think about the trim tabs on this build, though it’s a minor mistake, and I do like the rest of the build a good deal.

Thanks! @Amazjul

Damn this is beautiful! I love biplanes and this is just so awesome to fly.

thanks guys! @Wi1dSk7 @sheepsblood

This game is listed as a flight-sim because of builds like this. Thank you catbaron

Beautiful aircraft. Touchy on the roll axis but, whatever. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME Build

yehaw! @Omel

The wobbly camera combined with the detailed cockpit and wonderful flight characteristics makes this plane by-far one of the most realistic and fun planes I've ever flown in this game!

thanks! @Mumpsy

That is very pretty! Great build.

'Heron' I like that name.

thanks! @NakAk @jborra

How the heck did I forget to updoot this... wonderful job!

NICE!

There are links at the end of the description :/ @Wi1dSk7

Amazing! When can we have the Heron variant?

funky

@Thecatbaron np

neat

Thanks! @MAHADI

Ah yes let's whip on a 109 canopy.
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10/10 would 1930s again