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Old 09-11-2007 | 07:26 AM
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Default RE: Extreme composite Pro-Line

Actually Riot, it's not tail heavy at all. I debated on several ways to set up the elevator and decided on the servos in the tail because it looked a little nicer. The servo tray is already installed from the factory for a push rod set up. I don't like long push rods at all, so it was between twin servos or cables. The only thing that ruled the cable out was I didn't like the way the servo looked hovering over the rudder servo. Cheesey reason, but I suppose that's my perogative.

My comments with regard to the nose weight earlier were actually counter intuitive. The flight characteristics would have suggested moving the CG further back towards the tail by conventional wisdom (yours, actually), but I was experimenting with the nose weight based on converstaions with Bryan Hebert and Ryan M. It worked. Moving the CG further forward improved everything I hoped it would. Less mixing, better spins and snaps.

Derek,
Thanks for the pics! I like that set up. You'll notice on mine that I didn't even bother with the needle adjustment. I played with it a little with the belly pan off and have just tweaked it a bit from time to time. No need for a big ole nasty hole in the side of the plane!

I'll snap some more pictures of the stab set up and post them for ya. basically, I set it up just like my Impact (which was just like Jason Shulman's Impact). The base of the servo pokes into the fuse.

Joe W.