JIM, I guess guarding the throttle is a good thing after all. Glad you used good judgement and thwartd disaster. Speaking of which... the Aerospace testing Expo is at Long Beach 8th, -10th . I plan to

Hey Mike, Hope all is well in the aftermath of all the hurricanes you all have been having down there, good night, you sure have had your share lately! Were you impacted severely?? Sure hope

This weekend was the first time in 650 hours of flying my Q that I ever had to go around,(and did it twice)! Several of us flew into Pine Mountain Lake near Yosemite for lunch. The runway is

Wladimir, Your camber and toe-in numbers are incorrect. You don't want toe-in, you don't want negative camber, and you don't want anything near 3 degrees for any of these angles. Camber should be

Jeff,Great opportunities come to those who make the most of small ones. Arthur

Well I got permission to access the q performance group and crossed upon information about tri-foil concepts. Yeow, what a different approach to trimming the lift machine. In my R/C past,

Hi lift devices do work I read in a eaa magazine where a guy in the USA had fitted leading edge aerofoils on his canard on his long-EZ which had reduced landing speed by about 10 knots. In kitplanes

Hi, My nails are not brittle..they are though and flexible..just kidding...In fact you have raised an interesting question for which I do not have an answer. My models have relatively short wing and

Thanks for the advice to all who replied, I will head your advice and go for less weight. Darrell

Using this the wing sheeting could be as simple (and cheap) as brown (Kraft) paper with epoxi ... This kind of sheeting can become as though as a nail....In fact Ive used this many times for my

Jeff the T tail is a Q2/200 option which has probably not been fully exploited and very few about. Note we should be sharing this stuff on the Q-Performance group not on the Q-LIST. Peter

Good stuff Jeff. We have discussed some but not all of these ideas before on Q-Performance .There is surely plenty that can be done to reduce parasitic drag . Sam Hoskins has made a beautiful job of

Jeff: To Join Q-Performance just go to Yahoo Groups and sign in. The sign in page has a box for "find a group." Put in Q-Performance and the group is listed about # 10 (the first nine groups all

Wladimir, I have a modified TW that started from dragonfly plans and uses a 26 ft LS1 as well as many other mods that I like. Anyway, It is rated as having a stall speed at 52MPH. final approach at

wrote: this airplane. The drag advantage of the stagger wing biplane is overlooked by most. Furter discussion belongs on Q-Performance list. The Q2 gives up a bit to the Lancair in fuselage design,

I was diagnosed last Friday with the same thing. I'll be looking at surgery next month. Lot's of pain and not much sleep. Good luck on your healing Leon. Steve Ham

Yes Kimbull McAndrew put an 0235 on his Q200. It wasn't as fast as a couple of others with 0200's in a "Performance Eval" at Ottawa, KS several years ago. I don't know where he ran the RPM though.

Rotator cuff tear. Seems to have gone "per plans". May be awhile till I can type with all 6 fingers again rather than just the left 3 :-) Just as long as I heal sufficiently to be able to get out

The flat parts of the various welded parts. Cut some tube and grab the TIG - And You have Quickie parts. I'll probably make them available already welded and plated, just like the originals, or as

Hi, This is my first posting...I just thought this subject so interesting...Ive been designing a Q type aircraft, initially monoplace to test the concept. My approach to lowering the stall speed