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Hole in the Ground
Hi guys, so I've just been introduced to this little aircraft courtesy of Autodidact. For the benefit of others, here it is:
Information is scarce about this aircraft. It was a one off, only flew a few times due to poor controllability and was eventually scrapped. It's a 2 seater with a 34ft span (wiki).
so first speculative question:
With those spats and no tail, how unstable in yaw would this be?! Presumably the wingtip devices are split ruddervons but I'd have thought the pilot would have to spend their time tap dancing to keep it straight. From the looks of things the wing planform is just unswept and tapered (there is a scale model that has some modest sweep). So to my eye this looks like a very unstable (in yaw) platform. Are there any clever tricks that I'm not seeing that could improve the yaw stability here? Toe in the wheel spats slightly?
Information is scarce about this aircraft. It was a one off, only flew a few times due to poor controllability and was eventually scrapped. It's a 2 seater with a 34ft span (wiki).
so first speculative question:
With those spats and no tail, how unstable in yaw would this be?! Presumably the wingtip devices are split ruddervons but I'd have thought the pilot would have to spend their time tap dancing to keep it straight. From the looks of things the wing planform is just unswept and tapered (there is a scale model that has some modest sweep). So to my eye this looks like a very unstable (in yaw) platform. Are there any clever tricks that I'm not seeing that could improve the yaw stability here? Toe in the wheel spats slightly?
