Wattage Odyessy update

If you could see one of my fun fly models (circa early 80's - thick airfoil and lotsa dihedral) you would never say that dihedral prevents a model from rolling.

Not enough aileron throw or not enough aileron can prevent a model from rolling. Dihedral has nothing to do with it.

Ed Cregger

| Now the plane is a total loss. It still wouldn't roll unless you | simultaneously added rudder for a barrel roll. Aileron rolls are out of the | question. I would imagine it is due to the dihedral.

No, it's probably because you don't have large enough control surfaces or they don't deflect enough. As Ed said, dihedral won't stop a roll unless you have lots of dihedral and very little control authority.

| The airframe just won't handle that 400. I guess it's still lame.

I'm sure the airframe can handle the 400 -- it's probably that the motor wasn't mounted very well.