Red Bull Air Race Tech Talk | Trimming
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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In this latest Tech Talk, Red Bull Technical Director, Jim 'Jimbo' Reed explains the finer points of aircraft handling. He inlists the help of Master Class pilot, Cristian Bolton to explain how they set up the raceplane to give them the exact handling they want in the track...
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About: The Red Bull Air Race World Championship features the world's best pilots in a motorsports competition based on speed, precision and skill. Using the fastest, most agile and lightweight racing planes, Red Bull Air Race pilots navigate a low-level aerial race track made up of air filled pylons, flying at speeds reaching 230mph while withstanding forces of up to 10g. The objective is to complete the course, navigating the 65 feet high specially designed inflatable pylons known as Air Gates in the fastest possible time. Red Bull Air Race pilots must pass between the Air Gates in the correct position taking care not to touch them with their wings. The pilots compete for points at each Red Bull Air Race and the one who accumulates the most at the end of the season is crowned Red Bull Air Race World Champion.
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Next up: Jimbo gives advice on trimming... Of beards. :-)
Good to know thx Jimbo
and thanks Red Bull Air Race for coming to San Diego
As someone who flies RC extreme aerobatics, trim calibration is always crucial for me. Luckily, you can adjust all surface rates from high to low just on my transmitter.
I thought my earphones were broken.. Nice troll Red Bull, nice one
Welp, my left audio decoder is working extra hard now decoding the audio channel of this video.
Very informative.
The pitch trim explanation for higher speeds doesn't really make sense. At all speeds, for level flight, the same amount of total lift is required (wing plus horizontal stabiliser plus body lift plus propeller thrust vertical component, but we often ignore the latter two).
Both the downforce of the horizontal stabiliser and the main wing lift increase with the square of the speed. To reduce lift, then, the angle of attack on the main wing has to be reduced, thus the aircraft has to be trimmed nose-down. For that the trim tab has to go up, forcing the elevator trailing edge down, reducing the downforce of the stabiliser.
He has almost the same voice as Viper!
A switch controlled trim tab? Hmm, is that to be lighter opposed to wheel controlled trim tabs?
Audio is only on left speaker... :'(
beard of knwlge