Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
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"Gregory Hall" wrote in message
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It looks too much like an irresponsible, hot rod, stunt plane to me.

Well, you sucked me in at first, so on a troll scale of zero-to-10 you
rate at least a five. How are things in France?

Vaughn


France? I don't live in France. I built and used to fly a Rotec Rally 2B
many years ago. It was a tail dragger with a high wing and the motor was
mounted atop the wind with a pusher prop.

When I got it trimmed out correctly at cruise speeds I could lean forward in
the seat to nose it down and lean back in the seat to nose it up. Even as
well-balanced as it was at about half throttle, when the engine quit it
would pitch up immediately and drastically because the high engine placement
and pusher prop had enough leverage so that the proper trim at the tail
counteracted the nose down force of the engine and prop. If you didn't
immediately push the stick way forward when the engine quit it was a matter
of seconds before it would nose up fast and stall and then you would have no
control at all from the stick until it fell for a while and the nose dropped
(thank god for that) so you could gain speed provided you had enough
altitude to get control of it again. But it didn't glide too well being a
single surface wing with wire bracing. Perhaps 2:1 glide ratio. But it was
easy to land with no power but you had to come in hot and steep and at the
last second pull back on the stick and flare it.

It looks to me like the Legacy would act pretty much the same if the engine
quit.

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Gregory Hall