CG Calculator
#1
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Almost as common as the question: What Size Prop? Is the question: where is the CG? Here is an address for a CG calculator that every RC pilot should have in his favorite file. Mater's not weather you are a builder or will never know anything more then the ARF, this question will boggle your mind at some point in time, trust me on that, I have been given some real odd ball planes in my time and had to locate a CG for them. This calculator works so well I have used it on two meter pattern planes that didn't even have a name but after using this to locate the CG I never moved the balance point again, it works that well.
http://adamone.rchomepage.com/cg_calc.htm
Add it to your favorites right now before it gets lost again in the void we call the RCU back pages!!

http://adamone.rchomepage.com/cg_calc.htm
Add it to your favorites right now before it gets lost again in the void we call the RCU back pages!!
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Istart at 25%of wing cord and then fly it. Take an upline at a 45° angle, roll inverted, stabilize the upline and then let go of the sticks. If it noses up it's tail heavy. If it noses down it's nose heavy. Adjust and fly again. If your tank isn't near the C.G. test at less than 1/2 full.
Anything else is an approximation.
Works with slab or tapered wings, and I only have one swept wing model and that I use the recommended C.G.
Anything else is an approximation.
Works with slab or tapered wings, and I only have one swept wing model and that I use the recommended C.G.
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ORIGINAL: goirish
Hey Gene
Did you ever locate any information on the gull wing, wing jig?
Hey Gene
Did you ever locate any information on the gull wing, wing jig?
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ORIGINAL: Charlie P.
I start at 25% of wing cord and then fly it. Take an upline at a 45° angle, roll inverted, stabilize the upline and then let go of the sticks. If it noses up it's tail heavy. If it noses down it's nose heavy. Adjust and fly again. If your tank isn't near the C.G. test at less than 1/2 full.
Anything else is an approximation.
Works with slab or tapered wings, and I only have one swept wing model and that I use the recommended C.G.
I start at 25% of wing cord and then fly it. Take an upline at a 45° angle, roll inverted, stabilize the upline and then let go of the sticks. If it noses up it's tail heavy. If it noses down it's nose heavy. Adjust and fly again. If your tank isn't near the C.G. test at less than 1/2 full.
Anything else is an approximation.
Works with slab or tapered wings, and I only have one swept wing model and that I use the recommended C.G.




