RE: Showtime
Guys:
I have spent the last few days dremmelling out the tail area and gluing in my stabs and checking and rechecking the incidences. I have every surface within about .4 degrees of eachother and that will do for me. I wanted to point out something that I realized when adjusting and measuring these things. I have not had an elevator this big before and the moving surface (elevator) seems about twice or greater than the area of the non-moving surface (stabilizer) -- therefore, I noticed that the largest changes in incidence were produced by the smallest movement of the elevator -- not the larger movement of the stabilizer -- eg: I would move the stabilizer pin location up by 1/8 of an inch and produce something like .5 degree difference and would have the elevator off by a hairline -- I mean hairline and it would produce the same .5 degree difference -- those who are doing this mod should measure about 25 times before mixing the epoxy together -- I scared myself pretty bad when I checked the tail after it dried and found to my horror I was off by 1.8 degrees on the other side -- I just didn't have the elevator perfectly aligned.
Maiden flight will be tomorrow if I can balance the plane without incident.