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Old 16-04-2010, 09:42 AM
Nesti (Mark)
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Originally Posted by avandonk View Post

The old Piper 140's had a wing that had no washout. If you were not very careful when landing you would lose the lot if you got to the stall to early. The only thing that would lift a wing was the rudder. These high performance aircraft are even worse as they have higher wing loadings.


Bert

Rudder input toward or away from the dropped wing? Toward would be like the second half of a wing-over, away might level the wings through side-slip and taking advantage of the Piper's dihedral. Interesting.

I noticed they have a good dihedral; in fair conditions you could probably land on rudder alone.

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