KR> Stress and Balance Horizontal

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Heath
So, I take it that you want to have your elevator balanced. That is a good thing and can be done by two methods that I know of. One is to put an internal balance arm inside the fuselage, and the other is to put weights on the ends of the elevator. To do this, you normally use part of the horizon

KR> Stress and Balance Horizontal

2009-03-12 Thread Dave
Hi Kurt, very high quality engineering and workmanship!! Looks like you are going to be a bit heavy (many extra parts and materials not in the plans) - I see you have an equally nice looking high quality engine to compensate :-) How much does it weight? -dave Kurt Clement wrote: > I don't kn

KR> Stress and Balance Horizontal

2009-03-12 Thread Kurt Clement
I don't know if there is a way to test what I have done. I followed a link from this list (http://www.xs4all.nl/~hermhart/phamj/) and there was a picture where he had the tail section on a workbench with the caption "tail section measured and balanced" Since I consider myself the least capable p