Swallow ARF

[Henderson,Eric]

It seems that we all have Swallows that are waiting to fly. Mine was a pretty good kit arts and quality wise, but the nose was not right. The former in front of the wing was canted and made it hard to judge the firewall. The engine did line up with the cowl.  Also I used a 12" wooden ruler center-bolted to the engine to check thrust lines.  You can measure the difference from the tail. A 48" stiff metal ruler laid out from the tail allows a protractor to be sighted down on the "ruler/prop" for side thrust. Similarly for down thrust.

Mine were to spec. This is a well balanced plane speaking side area and planform area wise. It is not a wide-body so the more familiar side thrust should be enough.

Regards,

Eric.

-----Original Message-----
From: glenn hatfield [mailto:randy10926 at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:36 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Swallow ARF


That what I am going to do also with my Swallow.

Randy Hatfield



----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Terrenoire <amad2terry at juno.com>
Date: Monday, February 3, 2003 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: Swallow ARF

> Arturo: My Swallow is ready to fly, but not yet flown. I just went 
> withthe firewall 0/0. Will make adjustment from there if needed 
> after a few
> flights.
> 
> Terry T.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:45:57 -0600 "Zapata, Lisandro A."
> <LAZapata at pbsj.com> writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need some help on this ARF. On the instructions there is not mention
> related to right/down thrust, and the firewall looks like 0/0 
> incidence.For those that have this model flying, what did you do?
> Or, is this a acceptable setting for pattern??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arturo Z.

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