......I promise to not let make our sporty little plane into a freight hauler............!!
I am glad that Dan got his wish for an extremely forward CG; but the plane is 50# over our target weight. I think we should be looking for ways to reduce weight instead of adding it.... Just my 02 cents worth.... Keep on keeping on On 11/12/05, Dan Heath <da...@alltel.net> wrote: > > Jerry and I finished the final W & B on N64KR, today. All the numbers > check > out and while the plane is a little on the heavy side, I think it is going > to be a very stable aircraft to fly and that it will definitely be able to > carry passengers. In fact, to me, it came out so good that we may want to > consider adding a baggage compartment sometime in the future. However, I > will need to take some measurements and run some numbers first. If you > choose to look at the spread sheet, you will see that we weighed 3 > different > people. This was done to get an average station for "people". You will > notice that each station varies and of course, that is because people come > in all different shapes and sizes. > > If you want to play with the sheet, the numbers in yellow are the ones to > change. You will see a number on the lower right corner of the sheet that > is > the "CG". This number runs from zero to 6, if you are in the allowable CG > range. You can see it at: > > http://krbuilder.org/WeightAndBalance/index.html > > > > If you do look at the spread sheet and see anything that does not look > right > please let me know. > > > > See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics > > See you in Mt. Vernon - 2006 - KR Gathering > > There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for > building > is OVER. > > Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -- Jerry Mahurin - aka - KRJerry Lugoff, SC 29078
