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If the power off stall in your plane is "dramatic," then it is
different than either my small tail 320 or my previous 235. Then
again, we might just have a different definition of "dramatic." To me
"dramatic" would be the stall characteristics of a T-38 or F-4, not
these wonderful and responsive toys.
:-)
If you like your plane, that is what is important. For myself, there
isn't much that I would change about my plane even if I could - unless
it were to add yet more power. But then, that's something you can
never have too much of.
All I really know is that I love my plane, which happens to be a small
tail, and given that I love it like it is I wouldn't want to give up
even 2 knots for a change that a) won't change my flying pleasure one
bit and b) might make my plane less rugged and c) might interfere with
my communications.
But hey, this is the experimental world and the beauty is that we can
all say, "I want to do this differently."
Cheers all
Bill
On 14:59, Bill Kennedy wrote:
I've
got the larger, carbon fiber tail on my 320. In spite of your opinion,
it doesn't seem much like any Cessna I've flown. My guess is that it
flies a lot like the small tail version, except it has better elevator
response over a broader speed range. Being carbon fiber, it may not
have added any weight, but I don't really know.
My notion is that Lancair didn't "...mess up a good thing", but fixed a
bad thing. I've been very happy with the flying qualities of N42BK
except for its rather dramatic power off stall characteristics (which I
cannot imagine being any better with the small tail).
Bill Kennedy
N42BK, 599.6
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:28:51 -0400
From: anpfield@sbcglobal.net
Subject: [LML] Re: 320/360 MK II tail
Well said,
Bill Rumburg!!! Don’t
mess up a good thing.
Pete Field
320, Small
Tail
N775DX, St.
Louis
Many have cut off (and continue to cut off)
the original 320
'small' elevator/horizontal stabilizer. The 320/360 is a sport plane and it's a
shame to cut off or abandon the origional elevator/horizontal
stabilizer
and replace it with the heavy MK II elevator/horizontal stabilizer,
turning it into a 'Cessna', as dictated by the Austalian CAA
...a SHAME!
I built and have flown a 320 with the
original
elevator/horizontal stabilizer for twelve years. It's a sport plane and
NOT a Cessna!
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