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Old 02-26-2016, 02:16 PM
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UStik
 
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Sal, I was always here, just nothing to contribute and Dick said things better than I could.

Just looked over former posts and found #76 where I estimated the neutral point to be at the wing's trailing edge. Since the balance is already ahead of it, you now have a pitch-stable airplane, which would be even flyable if it were unstable. Static stability margin might be 8% now - not too bad. So I wouldn't add more weight but rather keep wing loading low.

Burkhard

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