Re: KR> Balls and string...

2020-12-09 Thread Ron Brown via KRnet
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 ev

Re: KR> Balls and string...

2020-12-09 Thread Flesner via KRnet
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 aircra

KR> Balls and string...

2020-12-09 Thread colin hales via KRnet
Hi there all, You know me well by now, I don't comment on much, just glad to read through the trials and tribulations we all went through while building and flying our planes. But when I read something that is just plain wrong, bad advice, then I have to speak up, as bad advice helps no one, in