RE: Also, If so, what could I do to overcome this? (fit a bigger engine, put on more weight???)
Daz, Actually it is not the elevator. It has to do with a characteristic that I have heard called "short coupled". This has been defined to me as the distance between a point on the main wing ( I don't know what it is called) and the same point on the horizontal stabilizer, and the relationship that, to the mean chord of the main wing. So you could have a plane that looked to have a short distance between the two wings and it not be short coupled because the mean chord of the main wing was very short. I hope someone with more aeronautical engineering knowledge than I have, will explain it better. You can offset the C of G by moving the engine out farther, or put on a monster engine. However, your results will vary. N64KR Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC da...@kr-builder.org See you in Red Oak - 2003 See our KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Click on the pic See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org
