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Old 11-28-2005 | 05:09 PM
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Default RE: Genesis basic kit (Electric build)

I set the level where I have it marked in the drawing. This was the sweet spot. Fore and aft of this area the canopy surface has a slight taper to it. I was instructed to set the incidence this way by Todd Blose and it was on the money. Its also important that when you use this surface that you make sure that the canopy is level side to side as well as laterally. I know that sounds obvious but I shimmed up to get it perfect and it seemed to work out pretty well judging by how well the plane flew.

The only caviot I would add to that is that Todd also instructed me after the initial trim flights, to readjust the incidence in the stab to take the trim out of the elevator. IE, down elevator trim... increase the stab incidence until the stab is in line with the elevator as it sits trimmed.

However, the stab adjustment tube must be drilled a little off on my plane because my incidence adjusters on the stab are against the stops to get to to zero, therefore I cannot increase the incidence in the stabs. I was instructed to take the incidence out of the wing maybe 1/10th degree at a time until I have taken the down elevator out to attain level flight. This should have a similar effect to increasing the stab incidence. I Hope Im not showing my ignorance but that is the way I understood it,,, and to tell you the truth it worked exactly as expected.

This is all done with the CG at exactly the front edge of the wing tube.

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