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Ditto on the WH Edge 540! I have the V2 also. I started at 6.5 and slowly moved up to 6.0. You may like it back there but 6.0 is a safe bet for a starting CG. Balance the plane dry or it will be tail heavy. First time I did mine 1/2 full and was sorry latter. Plane was really tail heavy. At 6 1/4" dry I can flip it over on it's back hand's off and fly straight and level from one end of the field to the other.
Hey Nonstop, mine pulled to the belly also but I just tweaked the upthrust a little figuring that was the cause. Wanted to balloon up when you backed off the throttle. Haven't flown it since the change. I'll let you know how it works out. How did you adjust your wing incidence?
On the aileron connectors, I have 6" extensions coming out ot the Rx that I connect to the servo extensions in the wings. I then put a Parson's keeper on them to make sure they don't disconnect.
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yeah, thats what i have been doing, was just wondering if someone knew of a connect system that connected when you put on the wings. Fishing out the wires from my wing halves and hooking them up. just seems like there would be something out there that would mount to the fuselage and match up with a connector on the wing half.
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Nothing I've ever seen or heard of. Seems like it would be a little iffy to me. I like my keepers.LOL I suppose you could rig up a couple of Ernst connectors that would work.
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Lou,
The wing incidence adjustment is easy if adjusters are installed. With ARFs such as SD Extra, we need to re-locate the locking pin holes on both fuse sides, slightly. Since we are talking about positive 0.5 degree change, the way I do it is to file away material (with a round hand-file) from one side of the hole and fill it with some material in the other. Do it for both holes on one side of the fuse (remove material from the top for the front hole, and from the bottom for the rear hole). I used a Robart angle meter to monitor the progress.
When done with filing, cut some 3/5-ply filler in moon-crescent shape to make now oval-shaped locking pin hole perfectly round. Glue the filler inside each hole with Epoxy. When dry, carefully file more material from the filler so that the hole can just accept the pin. I recall when done all holes are relocated about 1mm up or down.
This sounds complicated but can be done relatively quickly.
Some ARF vendors suggest to remove the inner double-up rings, reshape the locking pin holes, and glue back the double-up rings. I prefer the method described above because it does not weaken the locking hole structure.
See the finished "work".
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Sounds simple enough to elongate the holes .040" and reinforce the holes. Hopefully my thrust angle change will do the trick and I won't have to deal with it. I'll let ya know!!!
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Now you know why Kyle flies so well!!! LOL The trees in front of you are approx 150', the trees off of either end of the runway are 40-50'. Makes it real interesting when you have to drop in three times to land. Over the big trees to over the smaller trees to over the approach. BTW the dirt areas across the runway are 4' scotch broom now.
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just seems like there would be something out there that would mount to the fuselage and match up with a connector on the wing half. 
I suppose you could rig up a couple of Ernst connectors that would work.
