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Old 02-09-2003 | 11:50 PM
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Troy Newman
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Default on the tube.....

go to the back edge of the tube....I flew my 2+2's at about 5/8" behind the back edge of the tube.

you can play with it from there...but back edge of tube is a nose heavy position......

The way I checked my cg on th 2+2 was stick the wing tube in the fuse no wings....then stick the wing tube in a high point prop balancer....put a scale under the tail wheel and measure 2-3ozs on the scale....This was an easily repeatable number.....I always flew mine at about 3-3.5ozs.....but a couple others locally ran theirs at at about 2-2.5ozs.....


All the Typhoons fly about the same...even the Giles, 2000 and back to the 909....If you have about a 73" wing and full 2M fuse I think that's the "D" model it came between the typhoon 1000 and the 2+2....The 2+2, Giles, and 2000 are all the same basic wing.....Too Big....the "D" probably would be a good option in todays world as the wing is about 1000's sqs and not that big 1280 sqs or what ever the 2+2 has....


Typhoons are good planes....just can't keep up with the current F3A schedule....every thing Masters and below they are great.


Troy Newman