Thanks Mark Great to have somebody to talk to.
> Len Steyn wrote: > > > Using the full scale template's, draw the spars in. Measure from the top > or bottom inside the distance to the cordline where it intersects the spar. > Transfer this to the actual spars. Connect the two points by drawing a line > on the fuselage. Setting the firewall to vertical, measure the incidence > angle in this line.< > > Sounds like a plan to me. Keep in mind though that your firewall probably > isn't vertical with comparison to your fuselage (of course it depends on > where you check the fuselage). Dan Diehl recommends you put a 2 foot level > on your top longeron centered between forward and aft spars and use that as > level. One bonus is that you can always get there to measure, unlike your > firewall after a bunch of stuff is attached to it (I've finally lived long > enough to have that problem). Check each longeron and if they are > different, decide which one you're going to use and stick with it. And the > longeron is more representative of how the plane itself will be flying, > rather than the firewall. > > Having said all of that, a lot of people have used the firewall and they are > doing just fine. It's probably just personal preference, until somebody > figures out what angle the fuselage is optimally supposed to fly at > anyway... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
