RE: KMP Hurricane - maiden
All,
Check your CG using the calculator at: adamone.rchomepage.com and you will probably save a bunch of ballast weight. I say this because the Easy Tiger Bearcat owned by CaptG in that thread was going to require 12 pounds of ballast to put the CG where the manufacturer called for it to be. We used the program and found the factory CG of 5 inches behind the leading edge was out to lunch, the actual was 8 inches aft of the leading edge and my friend saved 6 pounds of ballast. He also avoided the required high stall speed associated with a nose-heavy airplane. His Bearcat flew perfectly, inverted it required about 5% down elevator, doesn't get much better than that. These manufacturers seem to go way forward in their CG locations out of some notion that the model will be safer to fly. Thats only up to the point that you run out of elevator authority.
I have the ESM Hurricane too, once I get off my butt I'll check the CG and let you know what I find, unless someone beats me to it.
Check out the Easy Tiger Bearcat post...last page.