I needed a little comic relief. I'm still stuck on my flaps! Just decided I didn't like how the foam job I did turned out, so decided to redo. I am looking forward to experiencing the wrong opposite rudder..... Or, as a rental car agent asked me the first time I rented a car in Ireland, have you ever driven on the "correct" side of the road? Keep the stories and encourage coming. I could use a boatload!
Ron Brown kr2byrjbr...@aol.com KR2S 810.262.0778 On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 6:53 PM Flesner via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > On 12/9/2020 9:58 AM, colin hales via KRnet wrote: > > While the yaw string works perfectly well on gliders, the propeller of a > powered aircraft places a rotational flow of air around the fuselage, hence > the need to apply rudder to also counteract the yaw of this spiral of air > effecting the aircraft the more power that is applied. So the yaw sting is > never straight. > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Along those lines, no pun intended, you will notice aircraft that fly > off grass and other "non-hard surfaces" will be most dirty on the > opposite side of propeller rotation, i.e., Pipers, Cessnas, etc. will be > dirty on the pilot side and aircraft with engines that rotate the wrong > direction, i.e., Corvair, V.W, etc will be dirty on the opposite side. > Yea, yea, yea, I know, "wrong direction", whip me, beat me, make me > write bad checks..................I'm about to fire up a Rotax so what > would I know. > > Larry Flesner > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
