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Morgans wrote:
> "Richard Riley" <Richard@mylastname.net> wrote
>> Even 8 is begging for pitch diversion on landing if anything goes
>> wrong. A little bounce and you're off to the races. It doesn't have
>> to have that high nose attitude - just a longer, fixed nose gear. A
>> lot of the gear design is left over from the original design goal of
>> making it roadable.
>
> Are you sure about that? Are you taking the delta wing's need to come down
> nose high, to slow down to reasonable speeds for landing? How about getting
> the nose high enough for takeoff? If the nose were much lower, how fast
> would you need to go, to get enough elevon effectiveness to lift the nose
> for takeoff?
>
> My guess, and forming an opinion from reading flight reports on the Dyke, is
> that the unusual attitude isn't a problem. While landing, you land nose
> high, and the speed becomes whatever is necessary to get a good sink rate.
> You do not come down fast, because you won't, if you are too fast. If
> anything, a bounce is a non incident, because you mush right back down after
> you bounce back into the air.
>
> That is my take, anyway. I'd want to fly one, before I went messing
> with the landing gear geometry.
>
I've an Xplane model. Not the real thing, but eh...
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