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Old 09-23-2013, 12:16 PM
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Well, with 3/4 of a pound removed from the nose and changing nothing else, the plane flies tail heavy...DUH!! In retrospect, there is very little weight to move that will shift CG enough to matter. Here's where the Electric folk have a huge advantage where they can shift the battery BRICK just a couple inches and make a difference

Hate the thought of putting dead weight back into the nose of the thing. BUT, I just might do that temporarily to keep the crate flying and breaking the OS in. I also hate to hack into the fuse and move the wing tube. I decided not to do that.

In order to remove the weight from the nose I have a newly designed wing in mind that will buy me 1 1/2 inches in CG location (aft location from its current location that is). This direction makes lots more sense than slicing and dicing the fuselage.

Of course when another fuse is molded at some point all this becomes moot