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Old 05-05-2003 | 11:02 PM
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Default Incidence readings?

I recently borrowed an incidence meter from a fellow club member.

Here are the readings:

With the tail surface "leveled", I took a reading of the main wing and got +.5. The motor read +1.5.

The plane requires about 3 clicks of up elevator to fly level. In the air the plane requires down elevator in rolls and pulls "up" (towards canopy) in knife edge. Can I assume that I need to adjust both ailerons to get 0 on the meter and shim the motor to get 0 on that as well?

It's a Balsa USA Stingray built with no wing dihedral. It's got an Irvine .53 for a motor.

Any ideas?

Thanks.