I was more concerned with the loose fabric on the wings and the lack of seat belts on the craft. The flapping of the fabric will cause it to rip sooner or later. Rolling with rudder input alone is simple enough. I think that dihedral has more effect on rolling out of a bank than rolling into it. Even a cessna 150 will roll into a turn with rudder alone and it has a lot less dihedral than a weedhopper or starflight. A lot of early ULs that used spoilers for roll control had a lot of dihedral for the same reason .
From: "palmettoe@aol.com" <palmettoe@aol.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 3:24:11 AM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group banking turns without ailerons
That was my theory Roger, rudder deflection inducing yaw makes the outboard wing fly faster than the inboard wing producing more lift which gives one somewhat of a bank. At any rate, that was part of the Ogden Utah Weedhopper dealer training school required of dealers way back when. Make sense to you?
Cheers!
John
In a message dated 3/5/2010 3:20:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rogpoyn@yahoo. com writes:
I am not sure about his theory but rudder input alone has been banking weedhoppers since the 70s. I have disconnected the spoilers on my starflight and until I get the ailerons installed have been very impressed by its roll rate using rudder input alone. Roger P
From: "palmettoe@aol. com" <palmettoe@aol. com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 8:51:24 PM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group banking turns without ailerons
I do not understand that, splain plz.
In a message dated 3/4/2010 5:11:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, flydad57@neo.
rr.com writes:
Has to do with the dihedral interacting with the rudder input.
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