Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "" video.

  1. Take a hint from real airplanes: have a pre-flight checklist which includes checking full range control surface movement before starting the engine.
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  2. I'd love to use Opera (and I used to use it daily) but I stopped using it years ago when they broke the native window titlebars on Linux and haven't fixed it since. The Google Chrome supports using native window titlebars and the most recent version also allows using native OS theme for the UI so I'm using it instead of Opera nowadays. (My window manager has features that Opera cannot emulate correctly and breaking the native window handling disables those features for Opera windows. This is such a bad downgrade in window handling that I cannot stand using Opera anymore.)
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  3. Great project! I think you should imitate real world glider planes which have much narrower but longer wings to increase lift. I would also guess your film was simply shrank too much which caused ribs at the wing tips to bend (and also make the airfoil curved between the ribs). I would guess it's better to have the film ever so slightly too loose than to get shrink it so much the surface doesn't follow the designed form.
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