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Postby Blackrat » Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:50 am
What about a high torque servo with a heading hold gyro .... not difficult to water proof the gyro and servo , it's tuning it that will be a nightmare
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Postby Peter_Frank » Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:41 am
But why change the AOA at all ?
That is the very beauty of a hydrofoil - it works so great, easy and performant with a fixed AOA for both low speeds and high speeds and maneuvers, with only subtle rider input to change between these, instead of any moving parts
If you had more negative AOA on stabilizer for takeoff, you would actually need a tad more lift/speed to takeoff - so not really desired.
And reverse, if you had higher AOA on stabilizer for takeoff so slightly lower takeoff speed, you would have to step back a lot, to push the foil up, and it would be more difficult to control
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Postby tahoedirk » Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:56 pm
Wow grandpa ,awesome, you knew more than anyone about tuning 5 years ago , and still do today. Cutting edge! do you ever make it to Tahoe?
I kind of expected a bit more which I had never heard
I can only believe that many people who dabble in this subject daily are not on this forum .
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