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Old 06-03-2006 | 10:57 PM
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Default RE: Excelleron 90

Ballbearingman (or anyone with solution)

This may be the second posting. Got error message with first.

Just started putting my Excelleron together. First pattern plane. Ran into similar problem as Ballbearingman. Laid the wing in the saddle of the Excelleron and measured fuse tail to wing tip. There is a 3/8' difference. However, wing IS square to fuse and square in saddle. i.e. Wing C/L lines up with fuse C/L and angle between fuse and wing at leading edge is same. Fuse seems to be straight. I stretched a string down the C/L and it split the fuse in half.

When I cock the wing (By the way the wing looks real good. The epoxy line had no gap and a flush fit.) to make fuse tail to wing tip demension the same - wing is no longer square in saddle and the angles from either side of fuse to wing leading edges differ by about 6 degrees. My conclusion is that there is something off with the wing and I don't know what it is and probably couldn't fix it if I did know. My fix for this problem would be no fix. Seems to me a wing square to the fuse trumps the wing tip to fuse distance being equal. I suppose I could try to get Hobby People to send another wing or fuse, but I am not sure what the problem is. Comments please.

John