Dean,
Agree completely - Art's Eindekker flew very well all weekend, and was a joy to watch. He's obviously got a very good handle on wing warping R/C models.
Breguet,
Probably one of the key things to remember with wing warping is that it is NOT going to be effective at slow speeds / high angle of attack. An old book written about the building and flying of the replicas for "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" covered this very subject in great detail. The Antoinette Monoplane replica made for the movie handled horribly at first, until they reluctantly retrofitted ailerons (and even then, didn’t fly very good!).
What needs to be watched with warping at or near a stall is the phenomenom of “control reversal” – the wing you expect to go up may in fact stall first, and fall! Add to that the adverse yaw of that same wing, and you can start to see the problem.
Art has commented that most of the “acrobatic” moves that his Eindekker does use the tailfeathers, not the warping. The warping does roll the airplane, albeit somewhat sluggishly. Art has posted here on the ‘drome recently (c.f. the Hoosier Dawn Patrol thread in Upcoming Events), so a note to him may get more information. You can also probably get him a note through the R/C Dawn Patrol website
http://www.bealmear.com/dawn_patrol/
So . . . .
Warping does work, even on our smaller models, it just has some nuances that are going to be different than aileron models. Keep the nose down when turning, and all should be okay. And use the rudder!
Best regards,
Lee McDuffee
the WinterHawke