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Where the Fokking rudder full left like he was slipping instead of doing a knife edge turn?
I do understand the Fokker has a lot of oppotise yaw in tight turns, also i don't see much rudder either.


Yep, R/C planes have a LOT of hp to weight. Especially when I built them. Reduced the weight by 25% by sanding all the wood to half the thickness then wicking ultra thin CA into the grain before I even started building. Lighter and stronger!

We had some of the world aerobatic teams come visit our flying field when competing in this area. We had a booth at their competition and did flying for crowd entertainment during their breaks. One of the US members was a popular show flyer he flew a black Pitts with 1 800 Collect on it, his name was Sean Tucker. When he visited he was very interested in one of my stunts. I did a lomsovak tumble while climbing straight up. Later I saw him do it during his air show routine and the announcer called it the Tucker Upper.

Totalled that plane when I got the bright idea to do a lomcavok 10 ft off the ground on a runway pass with not near enough airspeed. Pretty cool looking though, it looked like it just suddenly tumbled into the ground.
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