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Another mini series plane. . This is an updated version that prevent the rotator from swapping the wing forward. Thanks to @Mustang51 for his valuable input. Hope you all like it and have a great flight. .
p.s. You may want to change the pitch elevator control to lower number i.e. 20deg for better control. At the present moment's 30 deg is excessive. Sorry about that. .
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Successors 2 airplane(s) +3 bonus
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 23.6ft (7.2m)
- Length 20.0ft (6.1m)
- Height 7.7ft (2.3m)
- Empty Weight 8,146lbs (3,695kg)
- Loaded Weight 9,563lbs (4,338kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.349
- Wing Loading 112.8lbs/ft2 (550.9kg/m2)
- Wing Area 84.8ft2 (7.9m2)
- Drag Points 2158
Parts
- Number of Parts 76
- Control Surfaces 4
- Performance Cost 330
@Mustang51
Hi, I think I found the cause for the lost control when doing a roll with tight turning with this F-14. When I remove the rotator (set as pitch), I can do a roll with tight turn without any problem. I have build another plane and have the same setting (rotator=pitch), I encounter the same lost control problem. And when I remove it (rotator/pitch), its back to normal. Is that a bug?
@Mustang51
Sure! No problem. . Thank you and I appreciate it
@blindspot61 if you’d like I can tweak it a bit and explain what I did to fix it 🙂
@Mustang51
Thank you for your reply.
I have tried distributing the weight towards the front as in your 1st comment's suggestion but it still behave the same. Maybe i should distribute more. Will try again when I am free. Thanks again for the tips. Another worry I had is if I distribute too much to the front may cause more dipping when in max swept back flight. I guess need some balancing to find the optimum. :)
@blindspot61 that’s because the CoM is too close to the CoL. Good thinking with the elevators because 20 degrees is better than 30 as well but you have to either take away weight from the back or add it to the front to fix that. I hope that helps :)
@Mustang51
Thank you and Thank you for your suggestion.
I am not sure if its the design but I notice that in straight wing flight, when you try to do a roll with a tight turn, it will kind of lost control and the roll input tend to become the opposite reaction for quite awhile i.e. when try to roll left, it respond right and vice versa, until you ease up on the pitch elevator. So, I though by reducing the rotator max deg from 30 to 20 will ease the problem but it does not. Am still trying to see if I can solve it. . :)
Not too bad. I would just move the CoM further up but other than that it’s very cool
@Mustang51
Thank you very much for your valuable input. 8)