Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:09:27 GMT, John Ousterhout
wrote:


They fly OK. Ground handling is typical of many taildraggers that
require constant dancing on the rudder pedals. It is not among the more
benign taildraggers. YES, it is easy to groundloop.


I believe it's also less stable in yaw than modern pilots are used to. Built
stock, the Nieuport has no fixed vertical stabilizer...it's an all-moving
rudder. Many Nieuport builders try to add some by building the rudder in a
fixed/movable combination, covering the tailwheel support tubing with fabric,
etc.

Yes, I know. It's a fighter. It's not *supposed* to be stable.

Ron Wanttaja

I know a guy who flies a Fokker Triplane and he says if you let go of
the controls and leave it to its own devices it slews off into a left
wing down sideslip and will stay like that all the way to the ground.

John