Whilst refurbing my aircraft, I wanted to remove the wheels to clean out the drums. I went to jack it on a block of wood bolted in between the WAFs. It started to tip forward. Hence asking the question.
The CG may be a little bit further aft with the wings attached, but not a lot, so the advice to tie down the tail is well received. The whole business of landing with a flat tyre is a good reminder of one of the many compromises you have to make when designing an aircraft, the further apart the wheeels the worse the groundloop if you have a flat. The closer together, the easier to ground loop in a crosswind. The further forward the wheels the easier to ground loop, the further back the easier to stand the thing on it's nose. Who would be an aircraft designer ! Pete Wood, Sidney M (Titan) @ TITAN wrote: >I took Tony Bengalis advice as suggested in his Aircraft Construction >book. I built in jacking hard points bolted to the inner WAF of the >stub wing. > >
