My lift-off is around 65-70mph with about 1/4" UP reflexor. Immediately
have to trim nose down after liftoff. As Lynn, I fly around with UP
reflexor until around 150mph when the reflexor goes neutral. I fly
final (depending upon weight) as low as 75mph (have AOA) and the
reflexor is full UP.
Jerry Marstall

On 4/8/2012 5:29 PM, N142LF wrote:

For my situation, I am pleased with my take-off performance but wish I
had twice as much incidence. I fly around with up reflexor all the
time and certainly can not experiment with up elevator for increased
speed as some have reported because I can not trim the aircraft to fly
level with up elevator.

Regards
LJ French

Short & simple from my mobile

On Apr 8, 2012, at 1:28 PM, jay@...
<mailto:jay%40scheevel.com> wrote:

I do not want to represent myself as an expert, but I have measured

the wing/canard angles on six extensively flown Tri-Q's. As far as I
know all of the owner/pilots seem to be satisfied with the take-off
performance.

I am listing these measurements below and I ask that the owners

comment further if they wish. For this listing, positive numbers mean
that the canard has higher angle of incidence than the main wing,
negative means that the wing is higher incidence than the canard.

Kevin Boddicker N7868B Canard-to-wing -0.2 degrees
Mitch Hargin N311DM Canard-to-wing -0.02 degrees
Lynn French N142LF Canard-to-wing +1.34 degrees
Jerry Marstall N625JM Canard-to-wing +0.82 degrees
Bruce Crain N96BJ Canard-to-wing +1.02 degrees (waddelow&extended LS1)
Bob Clark N817RC Canard-to-wing +3.14 degrees

The spreadsheet from Martin's Tri-Q indicates his Canard-to-wing is

+0.40 degrees, so that is within the range of numbers listed above.

Cheers,
Jay Scheevel -- Tri-Q, still building

--- In Q-LIST@... <mailto:Q-LIST%40yahoogroups.com>,

"Mick Davies" <mickdavies1967@> wrote:

I would NOT have the canard at 0 degree incidence if it’s a Tri

Q. I had to:

1 put ballast at the rear of the tail
2 got Fast Little Airplanes (FLAPS) to make a larger nose gear fork

to raise the nose

3 fit a larger diameter tyre
4 set the refexors to trailing edge up

1 was to shift the c of g rearwards, 2 and 3 to lift the canard

incidence up and 4 was to make sure the canard had more lift than the
main wing.

Before doing this the plane wouldn’t get airborne, even at 80

kts, as the aircraft was â€Å"wheelbarrowingâ€Â� down the runway.

Mick Davies
Tri Q200 G-BWIZ
Just finishing the flight testing on mine (several minor faults)

done 18 hours and 35 landings

From: N142LF
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 4:30 AM
To: Q-LIST@... <mailto:Q-LIST%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Q-LIST] Progress update


If it's a TriQ are you sure you want 0 incidence with the Canard?

I'm not sure I know of any that are that way and the owners are

happy with them.

LJ French

Short & simple from my mobile

On Apr 6, 2012, at 5:22 PM, "Martin" <mailto:mskiby%40bak.rr.com>

wrote:

So I have been quiet for a while, but wanted to share the progress

on the rebuild of the TriQ. I got an amazing wing from Rick Hole to
replace the busted one and Jay Scheevel loaned me the measuring tool
to help get it in at 0 degrees with the canard. I have all the control
rods now made, both nav lights in the wing and started glassing the
tips. I am using the sheared tips and it looks really different at
this point. I will need to change the tips on the canard as well and I
made the tail match also. Looks like a bat! Anyway, my son is in
Virginia Beach at Oceana Naval Station and will be deploying on the
Eisenhower in the next few months so my helper is not here. So now I
can get some work done...... JK. Anyway it is coming along and I
posted some new photos for the group to comment on. I will also post
one of the plane before the accident do you can see how she was.

All for now and thanks again to both Jay and Rick for the help

thus far. It is great to have a group to call on.

Martin



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