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Old December 1st 09, 03:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
Jim Ham
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Default What type is this tandem plane?

Oliver Arend wrote:
Hard to tell. Some Dragonflies seem to have the main gear arranged
like the Q2, that's on the tips of the forward wing, others have the
"regular" main gear. What's also lacking from both the Q2s and the
Dragonflies is the third, very small horizontal surface on top of the
vertical stabilizer. It was probably just added because of CG
issues ...

With the Q2, the T-tail was added early on by some builders to help with
elevator authority when the canard was loaded with bugs or when in the
rain. Quickie Aircraft then came out with a design that added vortex
generators along the top of the canard to fix this. The vortex
generators really work. There is still some controversy on whether the
T-tail worked.

Later with the Q-200 Quickie Aircraft changed the canard airfoil which
fixed the problem for good.

I don't know about the Dragonfly.

Jim

Thanks,
Oliver