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Have you wondered how the pitch stability in an airplane works? Here is a simple explanation that I am sure you will like.
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RT @creyes123: How Airplane Pitch Stability Really Works: Have you wondered how the pitch stability in an airplane works?… http://t.co …
Carlos:
More and more of your “articles” are in the form of videos. I am out in the country so download is fairly slow but my main complaint is that I want a piece of paper that I can hold in my hand and study. I realise that It may mean more work for you but if you could I would really prefer written articles, not videos.
Regards,
Geff
Hmmm. I hear what you are saying. I am trying hard to find a balance.
What I would like to do is write an article and attach a video that complements it. Then you would have a choice of watching the video and/or reading the article. I just plain do not have enough time to do that all the time and keep to my daily publishing schedule. The model airplane design/build/fly projects are time consuming.
The videos have been popular, so forgetting about them does not appear to be the answer. When it makes sense, I summarize the contents of a video in a short article.
Thanks for the feedback. If anybody has any ideas on how to handle this, I’d love to hear them!
I do not know if this would help, but the videos are available in several different quality settings. I’m sure they are still very watchable at the lowest quality setting, which you might be able to get to work with your Internet connection.
Oh yeah, and there is a term for what I’m doing with the construction videos. It’s called a vlog – video log.
Carlos:
Great treatise on “Pitch Stability”. Thanks.
Don Larsen
Thank you! I always wonder if this stuff is too technical to talk about. When I gave this presentation at a local club, you could hear a pin drop… club members told me afterwards how much they had loved it. I guess you don’t know for sure until you try it.
How Airplane Pitch Stability Really Works did not explain why FREE FLIGHT models choose a CG location at 50+% of mean chord.
HWP
No, it did not. LOL
Airplanes with lifting horizontal stabilizers are really tandem wing airplanes. Their horizontal stabilizers are relatively large, compared to the size of the wing. In other words, they are more than the 10% that typical airplanes have. Exactly the same rules apply.