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Old 08-09-2003 | 02:24 AM
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Tall Paul
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Default Design specifications

ele, those numbers can be taken off the airplane..
What you will have problems with is determining where to measure from!
For instance the horizontal parameters:
"Horizontal Tail
Wing Span=25”
Wing Weight =.37 lbs
unless you remove this, how can you determine the weight?
Wing C(h)ord=5.5
incidence=0 degrees
relative to where?
Location forward=-32”
relative to where on the wing?fuselage?, and where on the horizontal?
location up=1.4”
up from the same unknown line for the wing?
% of c(h)ord=45%
deflection right/left=19% (should be degrees)
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Fuse attributes
Length=57”
Height=7”
Width=3.8"
Location forward=14.5
location of what, measured from where?
Weight=3.97
less the weight of the tail surfaces?
Frontal area=21sqin
Landing gear-Width-14.5
location forward/Up=4.5/-7.2
forward and up from where?
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Most likely, the thrust line is used for the "up" dimension, and the c.g. for the "location forward", but the only way to be sure is to measure the example plane, and then measure yours in the same manner.
Some simulators will also require the aerodynamic parameters, lift slope, drag coeffiecient, pitching moment, thrust coefficients, control surface coefficients..
You'll have to look at simlar planes in the simulator library to get a feel for what these parameters can be.
It's very tedious.