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Old 07-22-2002 | 12:09 AM
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Default Cub1, one more picture please?

I realize I'll owe you one (another one), but could you take a close-up shot of the side of the fuse so that I can see the wing alignment rings? From the outside of the plane, I'd like to see the holes (actually the rings) that the wing sits in to keep the incidence correct. I'd like to compare them to my wing. Just one side of the plane with a close-up shot of the alignment holes. Or if you want, you could measure the distance from the bottom of the alignment rings to the fuse floor (from the inside).
I'm having some weird flight characteristics and trying to figure out what it is. For instance, I have put up-thrust in my engine (so much that the bottom of my back-plate on my spinner is about 1/4" further from my cowling than the top of the back-plate) yet when I hit the throttle - my plane angles down. So, I'm trying to figure out if my incidence is right. What is really puzzling is that when I go up very high, then come straight down at idle, my plane will eventually pull to the canopy. It doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe this plane needs a lot of upthrust?