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Old 05-19-2009 | 10:58 AM
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Default RE: Modifying the wing incidence


ORIGINAL: Gray Beard

The idea of lowering the ailerons is just to give you a real world idea of what the plane will do by incidence change. If one of my planes balloons a little bit or dives a touch when I cut power Idon't go running to change the engine thrust angle first thing, Idrop or raise the ailerons a little to see what effect that has.
You can make up an adjustable wing just like an adjustable stab is made and play with the incidence all you like.
Iknow from a past build on a Cub that two degrees is a bunch. It just makes me wonder about the WHY of what you are trying to do. Acorrect incidence and using shims would tell you everything you wanted to know. An adjustable system could be a fun teaching tool for students.
Whatever floats your boat!
The old style Telemasters seem to lend themselves readily to mods. I'm a tinkerer that likes to experiment with "what if" mods,,, it's the reason I'm presently expanding my workshop, too many planes (:-). Actually, I think I'll give your suggestion a try on the present modded Telemaster40 when I maiden her (assuming she is there for a second flight).

On the next plane the stab is most likely going to get an adjustable mounting as well. As you say, it could turn into a great learning tool.

Regards