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CG for a Lanier 80" Cap?

CUB1:

Looking forward to the tank pictures! Thanks again for the input!

rbeck

P.S. I think most of the modelers out there have had a lot messier benches than that! I know I have! :D :D

Cub1, question about incidence

Cub1, if it's not too much trouble, would you please take a picture of your plane close up (with wings off) so I can see where your incidence holes are in relation to the bottom of your fuse. That would be very helpful. I'm using a trim chart and I think my incidence is off (I don't have a meter), but before I change it I'd like to see some one elses (if not too much trouble).
Take care.

Pictures are up!!!

Hope you guys can make out the pics the lighting is not that great.

CG for a Lanier 80" Cap?

Edge 540 pics are the next two

CG for a Lanier 80" Cap?

Edge 540 pic 2

Both planes have Don Harris smoke systems, the Edge smoke tank is smaller because of the little space that the plane has in the fuse.

I hope the pics help you guys out on the way I have things setup in my planes.
If i can help you out anymore just ask.

Oh yeah,
Bill fulmer did the graphics for me on both planes.
He does excellent work.
Here is the link to his website

http://www.customcutgrafix.com/

Cub1, one more picture please?

I realize I'll owe you one (another one), but could you take a close-up shot of the side of the fuse so that I can see the wing alignment rings? From the outside of the plane, I'd like to see the holes (actually the rings) that the wing sits in to keep the incidence correct. I'd like to compare them to my wing. Just one side of the plane with a close-up shot of the alignment holes. Or if you want, you could measure the distance from the bottom of the alignment rings to the fuse floor (from the inside).
I'm having some weird flight characteristics and trying to figure out what it is. For instance, I have put up-thrust in my engine (so much that the bottom of my back-plate on my spinner is about 1/4" further from my cowling than the top of the back-plate) yet when I hit the throttle - my plane angles down. So, I'm trying to figure out if my incidence is right. What is really puzzling is that when I go up very high, then come straight down at idle, my plane will eventually pull to the canopy. It doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe this plane needs a lot of upthrust?

aftcg,
I`ll get the picture to you before Tuesday evening, I have to pull the plane off the shelf again and put it on my work table where there is plenty of light to get a good pic.

I`m using a "cheap" digital camera that came with earthlink ISP.