Dan Heath wrote: > I think you need to > be very precise when you really have no slack.
Troy's has a little slack (about a half inch over the 24" length that's outside the fuselage), which he says may be why his works so well. And like you said, my little tailwheel's probably not very effective with the small amount of weight that I'll have on it anyway. With the turnbuckles I'll be able to add whatever slack is necessary, and in fact, I can easily add springs later as well. It's just that they'd be internal (out of the slipstream) rather than external, out there causing drag. I'll probably be able to show some pictures of this setup before the weekend's over. I'd have been done already but had to have some surgery on my hand Wednesday, so I've been reduced to reading and surfing the web for a few days. In other news, one of the EAA'ers at Moontown suggested I do my test flying at Decatur, which has two intersecting runways, one of them grass, and is surrounded by fields. Sounds perfect to me, and there's an RV builder there with some room in his hangar for me... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
