The prop on a rubber model is quite exaggerated compared to what you’d use on pretty well anything else, so they tend to be large diameter with broad blades and coarse pitch. With their prop locked in flight the blades effectively act as ailerons. I’m sure it’s nothing that couldn’t be trimmed out but once a free flight model leaves your hand there’s no way to do that.Interesting . How does a stopped prop effect the trim different than freewheeling.
Thanks. I thought it might have been a pitch trim issue.The prop on a rubber model is quite exaggerated compared to what you’d use on pretty well anything else, so they tend to be large diameter with broad blades and coarse pitch. With their prop locked in flight the blades effectively act as ailerons. I’m sure it’s nothing that couldn’t be trimmed out but once a free flight model leaves your hand there’s no way to do that.
If you have a link ... I’m very interested in seeing what they foundThere was a review of gliding distances windmilling and prop stopped on several Kitfox airplanes. Think Trent Palmer. They found little difference.