{"id":58,"date":"2007-06-01T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/the-formosa-lives\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:22","slug":"the-formosa-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/the-formosa-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Formosa Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to finally get my GWS Formosa back in the air today. This time I was smart and setup dual rates on my ailerons. I have them set to only move 40% of full when I put the &#8220;Ail D\/R&#8221; switch at 0 on my radio. That saved my bacon! The plane is a lot easier to fly like that. This flight, I noticed that the plane wanted to roll left hard. This is probably because I didn&#8217;t dial any thrust offset into my motor when I re-mounted it. I tried trimming in the air, but decided to land and do the trimming on the ground because I could see that it was going to be more than a few clicks. On the landing I came in a bit too bumpy and broke my prop. That&#8217;s when I realized I had forgotten to bring any spares. Oh well, the next flight will have to wait a day! I&#8217;ll hopefully have some good flight video next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to finally get my GWS Formosa back in the air today. This time I was smart and setup dual rates on my ailerons. I have them set to only move 40% of full when I put the &#8220;Ail D\/R&#8221; switch at 0 on my radio. That saved my bacon! The plane is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}