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Old 5th June 2011 | 15:45
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PickyPerkins
 
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Glide characteristics

grity ....... every pilot has to build and flow free flow models before he learn to control computers .........
Grity, very interesting.

QUESTION: Would you say, then, that anyone with a good model of an Airbus A330-200 with the correct CG etc, could give its HS a 13° nose-up trim and thereby demonstrate its glide characteristics?

Maybe somebody could do this and put a video on U-tube?

I have heard that Rutan's first test of the Spaceship 1 concept was done this way - he threw his model off the top of a building.
It was enough to show the concept was valid.
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