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Old 04-27-2011, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Viper2000 View Post
The most dramatic instance of this I ever encountered was a Corsair which flew nicely and looked pretty but was almost impossible to land. What happened was that the guy who'd made the model didn't realise that the R-2800 has a 0.5:1 reduction gear. So he had a very supersonic prop with awful performance, and this had forced him to dramatically reduce the airframe drag in order to match the stated top speed; it was therefore basically impossible to get the thing to descend for landing!
wow, I'm surprised the thing gets airborne in the first stance! Does X-Plane model propeller cavitation too?
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