I did not counterbalance my elevator as per the plans. These airplanes are usually tail heavy as opposed to nose heavy with today's over weight pilots. That being said------------putting almost 2 lbs of lead that far to the rear will have a more dramatic effect on the cg than you may think. Use caution. If you are hanging a corvair upfront then I wouldn't worry about it.
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:05:44 -0600 "Steve and Lori McGee" <lmc...@maqs.net> writes: > I did the elevator counter balance today with the elevator being > the "Horn " style ( Richard Mole design ) with the naca 63009 > airfoil. > With the weight in the horns it took a total of 28 ounces of lead in > 4 peices of conduit. Maybe 29 OZ in all. Anyone else know the > weight required for their counter balance? I was wondering where I > sat for weight comparison. Also this HS is almost 8 feet wide. > Now with the weight in the horns there is no worry of a bracket > breaking under G loads. The horns are well wrapped with carbon and > I plan on wraping some light deck cloth around the wood rib on the > outside as there is room. This will also make up for the extra > weight of paint on the larger rear side of the elevator. > > Steve McGee > Endeavor Wi. USA > Building a KR2S widened. > lmc...@maqs.net > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
