Wattage Odyessy update

Well, After complaining that my Odysessy was lame with the geared 180 motor I decided to try a new motor. I dropped in a Razor 400. Wow!! What a difference! It flies like it should. At least to the point when I was doing a series of touch and go's. Then it happened, upon exceleration the motor decided to depart the front of the plane. It tore away the whole front end. 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. The airframe just won't handle that 400. I guess it's still lame. Now it's onto bigger and better things. Hmm, Reno National Air Races sounds like fun. See you there this coming weekend.

Don.

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Don
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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

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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.

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Doug McLaren

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