Opps - sorry Mark,
Your question was:
"did he add the dynamic elevator balances BEFORE or AFTER he
wrote the article, and did they help?"
The answer found was:
Mr. Bingham did provide for 100° control surface(s) balance prior to
writing his article. He further indicates that the balanced control
surfaces did help as he mentions having " had the plane to 205 true
with no indication of flutter".
My guess was, he built the plane to plans, except for where he indicates
Balancing the Control Surface, as one of 12 MOD's to Ken's original design.
I ASSumed he balanced the Elevator and Rudder at the tips using lead shot,
as is a common procedure.
I greatly apologize, in my zest to be the first to answer your question
correctly and show how useful the KRNews CD is, I missed the bigger picture.
Regards,
Larry A Capps
KR Newsletter CD
Naperville, IL
-----Original Message-----
Larry Capps wrote:
> In answer to the question
can be read in KR Newsletter - July 1986 Issue #123.
I'm not really sure that answered the question.
It mentions that the
control surfaces were 100 percent balanced,
but not if it was using the
balance tabs at the tip or some other way. I guess I'll ASSume that they
have always been balanced at the tip, but I'm still not sure of that...
Thanks,
Mark Langford
