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Old 08-27-2002 | 02:50 PM
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Default I'm Building A Tiger 60!!!

Originally posted by dickj
The only problem I know of is that the tail is heavy as built per the instructions.
I had no problems with the plane being tail heavy, I built it as designed with a nose wheel, and powered it with an OS 90FS.

It might be possible to cut some circle holes out of the heavy horizontal stab and still be strong enough. Its your choice.
When I built mine (last winter) the Horizontal stab was built-up, and not heavy at all.

A few things I would like to mention are, first, taper the rudder and elevators. It makes a much nicer look. And if your kit was like mine, the small sections of trailing edge stock that are used on the wing (everywhere except where the ailerons are) were too thin to mate up with the wing, So I just added some 1/16th sheeting to thicken them up a bit.

Also, I eliminated the torque rod between the elevators, and used a seperate pushrod for each side.
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