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Old 10-23-2005, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by surdumil
The X-21's boost was very straight and very quick. Despite all that balsa, she's a very light bird. Transition to glide was smooth and graceful. The glide was quite flat, with a moderate right spiral. I'd like to open the turn up a bit next time with some adjustments to the elevon stop wires. The landing was gentle and flat.

Thanks for the flight report!

Now, let's put a grasshopper in the payload section for the next flight to see how she glides then.
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