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Mine was more out than that.
I am suprised that you received a note saying .5 is fine. .5 degrees wing negative compared to the stab. Seems to go against most other pattern designs where the wing is positive up to .5 degree compared to the stab. I would be curious if anyone flying one that does not need any significant elevator trim can confirm that the wing is normally negative compared to the stab (leading edge down)
Thanks,
Stuart
Stuart, I felt Luigi was saying a half a degree off would be within factory, builder, and wood tolerances, but I believe zero is ideal on the wing and the stab. Did you feel the note indicated 0.5 negative on the wing is the norm? I certainly am not perfect at interpreting these things myself. I also think many folks may not see any deflection depending on their combination of weight and CG.
In any case, I wholeheartedly agree with Jeff, the plane flies beautifully regardless of the incidence trivia, and I'm hopeful that come spring time I will do just fine as a "Sportsman" in my second competition with this plane as is. Plus my mentor and master The Great Flyer himself Chris (a.k.a.)UAL767 is going to give me a lesson in "mixology" so I can fine tune my new toy, or so I hope
On a final note I was just looking over my graph and realizing that a 15 minute flight would be very conservative on my setup. My 10 minute flight yesterday only put 1917 mAhs back into the pack. Does anyone else fly their Angel for 15 minutes?
Thanks again one and all,
Joe
P.S. Just for the record here's a copy of the email I sent to Fedon:
From: JoePeck66 @ ********
Subject: Proper wing versus stabilizer incidence on an Angel 50.
Date: October 16, 2008 9:07:39 AM EDT
To: info @ fedonaircraft.net
I have a new Angel 50 which I flew yesterday 3 times. It required 4 mm of up elevator with the CG at 145 mm so when I got home I checked the incidence of the stabilizer versus the wing and found the wing is .8 degrees down compared to the stab. Below are pictures of what I found. Is this normal?
Thanks for your help, and sorry for the trouble. I still love this plane very much, but I want it to be as perfect as possible.