Originally Posted by
VincentJ
Congratulations Fred, it looks great! It's a very simple but elegant paint scheme. When I build, I don't mind having a tail heavy plane, which is easily balanced with a lot less weight than if it were the other way around...Hope your maiden is uneventful!
Huh?
Don't you mean the other way around? An ounce extra on the nose will take less added to the tail than an ounce extra on the tail will need on the nose to balance.
The tail moment is considerably longer than that of the nose. So tail heavy needs a whopping big amount of nose weight to move balance forward. Of course, if you could remove tail weight, that would work as well.