Name that Flying Machine
Lately it's been kinda hard knowing who exactly to hand control over to. 
Above is the Brewster XA-32.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_XA-32
If so - OPEN HOUSE for others to have a go.
Above is the Brewster XA-32.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_XA-32
If so - OPEN HOUSE for others to have a go.
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 60
Posts: 12,618
Received 294 Likes
on
162 Posts
Can't but help feel someone has had a bit of fun with a bent Citabria or Champ!
Lear 35/36?
- Ed
- Ed
Not a challenge...
UV et al. flight characteristics of the rooster described as 'sporting' by the test pilot:
"A Handful of ChickenUnfortunately, Beltrome further reported, “The Rooster is unstable in roll and has a tendency to go into the first stages of a spin when you start to turn, if it isn’t noticed and checked.” He put in one stage of the flaperons to try to solve this problem. This is why the first flight turn was a very gentle affair with little more than 5 of bank and often less, with a very obvious and “twitchy” pitch.
Perhaps the most amazing and interesting part of the Rooster is its control system, which works in reverse to a normal three-axis-control aircraft. The control column comes down from the roof of the cockpit, and the control inputs are exactly the opposite to what one learns in normal piloting skills, so you pull back on the stick to go down and vice versa. This is the reason for some of the accidents during early taxi tests. It is apparently more like flying a delta-wing hang glider."
Full article here: https://www.kitplanes.com/when-the-rooster-flies/
And to Noyade, yes I was quite enthralled by Batchelor's drawings as a child...
'866
UV et al. flight characteristics of the rooster described as 'sporting' by the test pilot:
"A Handful of ChickenUnfortunately, Beltrome further reported, “The Rooster is unstable in roll and has a tendency to go into the first stages of a spin when you start to turn, if it isn’t noticed and checked.” He put in one stage of the flaperons to try to solve this problem. This is why the first flight turn was a very gentle affair with little more than 5 of bank and often less, with a very obvious and “twitchy” pitch.
Perhaps the most amazing and interesting part of the Rooster is its control system, which works in reverse to a normal three-axis-control aircraft. The control column comes down from the roof of the cockpit, and the control inputs are exactly the opposite to what one learns in normal piloting skills, so you pull back on the stick to go down and vice versa. This is the reason for some of the accidents during early taxi tests. It is apparently more like flying a delta-wing hang glider."
Full article here: https://www.kitplanes.com/when-the-rooster-flies/
And to Noyade, yes I was quite enthralled by Batchelor's drawings as a child...
'866