That's why I love my Sharon Profi!!! It has plenty of tail volume, a more
acute angle between the tails and handles like a dream for such a big plane!
Thermals out from a hand-launch pretty well, too!
Keith McLellan
Hawaii
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Subject: Re: [RCSE] V-tails, Euro-moldies suck for
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Any one have comments on how the recent trend of light weight V-tail
Euro-molded ships handle in a TD contest? Always hearing they don't
fair
well in the landing task. But then again the earlier ships were much
heavier with higher wing loading.
V-tails suck for landings Heavy planes suck for landings...
Compared to full flying stabs on light airplanes..
The real issue is design. Most of the european V-tails are not designed
to provide enough control authority. If they made the tail bigger and
decreased the angle between the tails they would be much better.
Put some current conventional tail models into Plane Geometry and then
put in some of the European designs. Look at the numbers.
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