Flat4
Senior Member
Haha! Well you're very welcome to copy my design, that's why I put it on the forum in the first place!
I do notice I need opposite aileron input to make a flat spin, and it's more like a flat turn than spin anyway . Differential thrust should definitely help, I'm sure you've seen the original cruiser episode. Even with a symmetrical wing, the wing that has most speed (right wing in a left turn in your example) will still produce more lift than the other wing. This is because there is an angle of attack involved, which is not zero, because if it was you would be descending. A symmetrical wing with 0deg pitch does not produce lift.
Maybe a flight stabilizer, like the guardian (have one, still got to test it) or the APM is able to make you do flat turns/spins without the hassle of giving aileron corrections to keep the plane flat?
I also have new modifications in mind for my symmetrical wonder: I need larger winglets for increasing knife edge performance, and I want a smaller vertical stab (possibly combined with larger rudder).
Just read through your thread, now I want to steal your winglets too. Also seeing the recess you put in your fuselage gave me the idea to just create one that is symmetrical to the wing and tail section on the top and bottom, if you get what I mean. While I'm at it might as well make the vert stabs symmetrical, and have an identical plane top from bottom. Would that pose any major issues with it besides, what I'm guessing to be, a slight efficiency loss from lack of lift? I just finished the plane this morning and I'm already mentally preparing it's tear down, i need to stop lol.
Off topic, I have rough edits done of most the footage of the day. Basically just the highlights of my flights, and my buddies chase footage. Uploading them now, gonna link them up on the first post. If you are to watch anything check out from like 3:30 on in the chase footage video. That's the clip I was talking about that I didn't have my mobius turned on for.