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Old 09-14-2010 | 10:48 AM
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Default RE: CG help, please


ORIGINAL: charlie111

From my own experience you could hang the plane from the cord line.It should hang level when it's all together? Good Luck Charlie
Yes, but the question is WHERE on the chord line. The CG calculators are designed to do a bunch of calculations to determine where the aircraft's neutral point is located and then tells you how much ahead of that point to balance the model. The actual balance point is quite flexible depending on the model's design and the degree of pitch stability that the flyer desires. And a lot of the old time plans didn't tell you where the balance point was to be located.