Problems with flight lift

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Problems with flight lift

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After decreasing the weight of my plane, changing the angle of attack, and adding clay to change the center of gravity, I have not been able to adjust my plane so that it has enough lift to go up as opposed to going down. I am not sure of what else to do. Any ideas?
Also, I have noticed that during flight, my plane is very unstable, but I am not sure of how to fix this. Thank you all!
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Re: Problems with flight lift

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Can you give more info? What torque are you launching at? If you give really specific details, BJT can give you very specific and helpful feedback.
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sciolywin wrote:After decreasing the weight of my plane, changing the angle of attack, and adding clay to change the center of gravity, I have not been able to adjust my plane so that it has enough lift to go up as opposed to going down. I am not sure of what else to do. Any ideas?
Also, I have noticed that during flight, my plane is very unstable, but I am not sure of how to fix this. Thank you all!
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can you provide rubber thickness, length, mass, any wing posts info, and prop info
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Re: Problems with flight lift

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klastyioer wrote:
sciolywin wrote:After decreasing the weight of my plane, changing the angle of attack, and adding clay to change the center of gravity, I have not been able to adjust my plane so that it has enough lift to go up as opposed to going down. I am not sure of what else to do. Any ideas?
Also, I have noticed that during flight, my plane is very unstable, but I am not sure of how to fix this. Thank you all!
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can you provide rubber thickness, length, mass, any wing posts info, and prop info
He told me .81, which seems rather thin. I'm thinking they try a .094 just to see how it goes.
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Re: Problems with flight lift

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I did about a .108 thickness motor with 80ish winds using a 15:1 winder and improved my flight time to about 1 minute, but I think lift is still a problem. I have my front wing at its maximum angle of incidence too. Any ideas? My goal is to get it to around 2-3 minutes by the end of this week. Thank you everyone!
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sciolywin wrote:I did about a .108 thickness motor with 80ish winds using a 15:1 winder and improved my flight time to about 1 minute, but I think lift is still a problem. I have my front wing at its maximum angle of incidence too. Any ideas? My goal is to get it to around 2-3 minutes by the end of this week. Thank you everyone!
what about your stabilizer posts, that might be the problem.
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Re: Problems with flight lift

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The front wing has its maximum angle of incidence, and the horizontal stabilizer is flat. The distance between the horizontal stabilizer and wing are close to a maximum as well. The tilt on the front wing is around 5* to the left, the direction in which I wanted the plane to spin.
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sciolywin wrote:The front wing has its maximum angle of incidence, and the horizontal stabilizer is flat. The distance between the horizontal stabilizer and wing are close to a maximum as well. The tilt on the front wing is around 5* to the left, the direction in which I wanted the plane to spin.
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Re: Problems with flight lift

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I tilted the front wing in the direction that I wanted it to spin. So it is spining towards the left and my left is angled down while the right is up.
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Re: Problems with flight lift

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sciolywin wrote:The front wing has its maximum angle of incidence, and the horizontal stabilizer is flat. The distance between the horizontal stabilizer and wing are close to a maximum as well. The tilt on the front wing is around 5* to the left, the direction in which I wanted the plane to spin.
I think you should level the wings, and add Wash-in. There are instructions to do that in the FF 2019 booklet.
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