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Old 9th Aug 2003, 23:47
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Monocock

 
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Congrats A + C !!!!

Have fun and safe flying. See if you can make it fly backwards, I managed it in one I used to own!

1. Wait for a nice windy day and go to about 8000 feet (or wherever the wind is strongest).

2. Fly a gentle orbit and see which compass heading gives you the slowest G/Speed on your GPS (assuming you have one).

3. Directly into wind apply flaps gradually until you get to full flap and hold it off the stall with power and attitude corrections.

4. Watch your heading on the GPS suddenly show the reciprocal to the direction you are facing!

The power of those barn door flaps is quite incredible!!!

Oh and before any do gooders say I was silly, I probably was but I always wondered if it was possible and now I know
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