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Old 31st March 2010 | 22:05
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Deeday
 
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I've still got a test flight report from the main Italian aviation magazine (April 09) and the conclusion was that it was still pretty much a fledging project.
The author was unimpressed by its marginal longitudinal stability. With two moderately-bulky people up, he suspected that the CG might have been already at or beyond its rear limit (they didn't have W&B charts yet, on the prototype). Lateral stability was no better: with that weird (and very sexy-looking) combination of negligible wing dihedral and marked negative tailplane dihedral, the result is that "there isn't the slightest hint of roll induced by yaw" and it's "impossible to stabilise a sideslip", with obvious repercussions on crosswind operations.
One of the best-looking light aircraft around, that's for sure, and with performance to match, but I hope its development didn't stop a year ago.
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