Nose Weight

brianyemail-nsrca at yahoo.com brianyemail-nsrca at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 15 13:14:43 AKST 2005


Do whatever is easiest/cheapest or otherwise fits your
needs.      ;)

A couple ounces aint going to hurt that much.

Brian

--- Steve Wiggin <swiggin682 at cox.net> wrote:
>     OK guys,  judging from all the snide remarks, I
> must have asked your 
> collective Holinesses a stupid question. Since I
> have no components to 
> easily move, and I'm not going to move the wing tube
> forward, I guess the 
> only other thing to do is think about lightening the
> tail. I am using a DB 
> fiberglass rod for elevator as called for in the
> plan and it seems a little 
> heavy. Perhaps I should think about using pull-pull
> for elevator to lighten 
> the tail and avoid the "crime" of adding nose
> weight. BTW, I don't have 
> super light weight components elsewhere on the
> plane. This is to be an entry 
> level airplane. I wonder what I should do about the
> "crime" of being new to 
> pattern? 
> 
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