Don't trap yourself with a false notion that if everything is not 100%
optimum, the airplane will fall out of the sky. Keep it simple. The idea
is not to stretch the limits of the airplane's capabilities but to fly
within the known capabilities. If the airplane doesn't fit the mission
you desir
Thanks Mike! That's a hack of nice idea to deal with the sensitive CG
issues for experimental & light aircraft such as ours, and I was actually
thinking of adapting the same kind of "adjustable CG" design tricks along
the same direction.
Well, there is obviously neither bombproof mechanism to
I saw one KR-2 design where the owner built the plane with a small weight
in the tail cone, designed to be easily moved forward as needed. As long as
you had a bombproof method of attaching it (and an idiot-proof way to
remind you where it was), this could be very useful.
Mike Taglieri
On Thu, Ma
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