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Old 01-06-2003 | 02:09 AM
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I recently purchased a cg extreme used. When I got home I noticed the wing alignment looked to be off. When I measured from the nose of the plane to the wing tips the measurements were good. But from the tail to the wing it was off about 3/4 of an inch from one side to another. With this being a fun fly plane and probably wont be flown very fast do you think that it will not fly right? I hate to have to cut the wing loose to realign it,
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Old 01-08-2003 | 01:15 AM
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Default wing alignment on profile plane

Jeff, I assume that it has been flown since it is used so I wouldn't worry too much. If the measurements from the nose to the wing tips are OK then it would seem the wing-fuse is aligned reasonably good. If the measurement from the wing-tail (measured from tip to tip) is a little off then it would indicate that the stab is misaligned in yaw. Check by measuring from a point on the front of the fuselage to the tail tips to check.

I would think that it would be nice to have every thing exact but I would doubt you (or anyone for that matter) could tell the difference due to a small tail misalignment of that type in flight. If the inciidence is OK then you are probably good to go.

If it were a pattern ship that you were fine tuning to the nth degree I would redo it though.

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