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Old 10-16-2012, 03:16 PM
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Default kit building, tail vs nose weight

Just started building a dynaflight Butterfly.. 99" wingspan powered glider.
I'm trying to keep the tail light as like most models, I read about having to add nose weight after the build.

While sanding the taper on the back end of the elevator, I saved the saw dust and found I have removed 4+ grams just by sanding.

isnt there a formula where if you remove 1 gram from the tail, that would be 3 grams of weight you wont have to add to the nose??? of something like that???

I've always built heavy so I'm makeing an effort to keep the plane/tail as light as I can...

where can I get the most weight savings.... I've been using CA so far..???

thanks


Steve