Finally I measured the incident on the herk. I mounded the wing flat in the wing saddle when I built the plane, makins some assumptions which may or may not have been correct. I assumed the wing saddle was parallel to the wing centerline. This would give a good base to the wing without having to rework the saddle fiberglas.

Results.

The wing on the saddle is - 1/2 degee to the wing fuse top.

The top was measured about 3" behind the trailing edge of the wing and before the joiner point.

I leveled plane to set the wing incident to zero. (top flite i think brand for the incident meter.

Then I checked the stab incident and it was 1 degree positive.

What this means is that if the stab is at zero the wing is at -1 degree, which is too negative. (I would expect zero or + 1/2 to 1)

The wing can not be adjusted and only the stab can be moved because I made it removable. I have previously lowered the leading edge of the stab about 3/8" to get the current set up.

What does this mean..

Bottom line.

The plane is flying with the wing at -1 degree to the stab and requires a slight amount (~1/8") of up elevator to fly level.

This was the first Herk on this website that I remember and I posted construction pics. The plane does fly ok but If I were to build another I would:

1) Use the wing saddle as a reference.

2) Build the wing and install it on the saddle

3) Set the stab in reference to the wing to attain about a +1 degree on the wing in reference to the stab.

Hope this helps and sorry for the delay.

I do now have video of inflight I took this week 7/21/04 if I can get help as previous to post. the videos are about 20 sec. each and show complete takeoff,, in flight, and landing. Sorry but there is no sound on this video,, guess the funds are a little on the light side after building the herk in buying the camera.

Jim