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Old 10-15-2008 | 07:00 AM
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Default RE: Balancing Waco bipe


ORIGINAL: jetmech05

From the leading edge of both wings at the fuse (guess on the upper wing were the fuse would be) 1/3 back...make a dot, one dot on the top of each wing..now connect the 2 dots with an imaginary line....your CG starting point will be in the middle of the fuselage on that imaginary line

Hey mech, wouldn't it be safer to go with "the middle of the line"?

The fuselage being closer to the lower wing means the center of it would be farther aft on that imaginary line than the center of that line would be. And the 1/3 back deal really only considers the relative location of the two wings and nothing else.