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Old 01-25-2014 | 06:22 PM
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FireBee
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Abu, being 1/2 a world away its hard to communicate. Your effort on alignment looks well within the normal ASAP idea. Cool.

But I see MerlinV's point.
When I pull-up the engine picture and ran it on the edge of my laptop frame, your port side prop was slightly more aft. That would be left thrust and very bad.

a picture check is not good enough. This will only takes five minutes to check.

Get a piece of string, that will not stretch, and measure from rudder post to the prop tip. Mark it. Turn prop 1/2 turn for comparison. ( prop trueness). Now measure starboard side and do a 1/2 turn check too, to compare the marks. Your starboard prop side needs to be shorter. I'd say about 1/8 th to 3/16 th ( less than 1cm) or something about in that range.

It is just like checking the wings for squareness to the fuse. She is a great looking plane. Good luck on the re-maiden.

Last edited by FireBee; 01-25-2014 at 06:27 PM. Reason: Typos