If you are the ARF type..

Well, clearly, you grew up without benefit of Japanese culture. No self-respecting Nihon-jin would say such a thing of himself.

Are you daft? There are no moderators here.

Yoroshiku...

| Yea, even the 1/4 scale Sig Cub Ibuilt had that tendency! I think it was | the narrow wheel track coupled with the high CG.

Even the full scale Cub has that tendency :)

Adding some toe-in to the front landing gears will help a lot. As will making sure you take off directly into the wind and not giving it lots of power all at once.

| >> I had a small Chinese made Cub a long time ago, and it was only | >> possible to take that thing off while holding the tail, giving full | >> throttle and then letting go of it. Any other way, it would just make | >> ground loops (doughnuts).

Apparently Akimoto san (Dekai guzu) has had a problem with some of the moderated R/C forums since this one is un moderated. His head would not fit through the opening to the forums.

Red S.

Does anyone know where I can by stick built kits "reasonable". Likewis

I would like to find some CAD Software that will allow me to re-scal R/C Planes for stick build

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Took me few moments to absorb this, then I got it.....and LOL !!!

Thanks for the chuckl

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Bull S*IT! No Naval AVIATOR would call himself a pilot! Pilots steer ships in harbors.

I would tend to think that toe out might be better in this case. Toe in would exaggerate the yaw/roll oscillations.

My experience with taildraggers, plus everything I've read, indicates that toe-in is desirable. My late, lamented Shereshaw Cadet would bend the landing gear toe-out on every hard landing, if I didn't bend it back the next takeoff would be squirrelly.

| I would tend to think that toe out might be better in this case. Toe in | would exaggerate the yaw/roll oscillations. ...

Well, with toe-in, if your plane starts going a bit sideways down the runway, it will tend to correct itself. Which could cause oscillations, I can see that ...

... but that's better than the alternative. With toe-out, if your plane starts to go a bit sideways, the toe-out will make it unstable and it'll turn more and more and finally will groundloop unless you can correct for it.

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Doing some googling, I see pages talking about the benefits of both toe-in _and_ toe-out for full scale planes (and the benefits given are usually the same for both, strangely enough) but the R/C model related pages seem to be mostly talking about toe-in. But

I guess there's just more to it than my simplistic analysis.

I guess the real answer is, if it's a really big problem for you, to either have a huge tail or a gyro to do the corrections for you, if you can't do them yourself. Fortunately, most Cubs are slow fliers, full scale and model, so doing the corrections yourself isn't so hard.

We kit the "Nemesis" which is a nice laser-cut balsa sport aerobatic. Kits are made right here in the USA.

Randy Model Airplane Engineering

From Paul M.:

Mr.Tojimoto comes across as a rather elaborate troll job. Sounds like some cracker with an anti-Japanese bias who's trying to make Japanese look bad. Bill(oc)

Now you are trying to make crackers look bad. :-)

Red S.

;-)

My My! Aren't we full of ourself! Go crawl back into a cave on some island. Your experience with full scale aircraft doesn't mean crap in the world of modeling. In fact, full scale aircraft pilots make the worst R/C students I ever taught because they're just like you...they think they know everything.

Apparantly Akimoto has been banned (along with his 2 other alias) from RCU. This may be the only place he has left to annoy people.

Red S.

Haar! Good move RCU!