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I just hope Dick Hanson is not a commercial airline pilot, where CG does matter. He has the arrogant attitude that results in aviation fatalities. Regardless of how much he may know, he is conveying the wrong message for those who don't know as much or have his experience. For those of us who live in the real world CG is extremely important. When you are flying a model airplane you better set your CG within a range that allows you to control it properly. Sure if you have a more powerful engine you can get away with a totally unconventional CG, or if you have extremely large control surfaces (depending on which way you are moving the CG), but from there to saying that CG is irrelevant is a dangerous stretch.
And, Chuck, don't stick up for him. Arrogance is not kosher. No matter how much you know. Actually, the more you know, the more you realize how little you really know. And if that doesn't make you humble nothing will. There is something called narcissism, and it is not a flower.
Luis