[NSRCA-discussion] Once again... (Envision)

[shinden1 at cox.net]

lol ,it was more of a mind exercise that anything,
 I felt like Dale Ernhart JR`s crew chief! ,,can you imagine him deciphering my spelling ?
much less the info <G>
Bryan
---- Derek Koopowitz <derekkoopowitz at gmail.com> wrote: 
> How's your carpal tunnel, Brian?  Send Jas the bill... LOL
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM, <shinden1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Glad I could help you again,Jason, I enjoy the challenge,of strange mixes
> > LOL,
> >  Chip and C/A built a nice design,and the airplane looks great !
> > I know you will be rewarded with your Efforts on your first Design,
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> >
> > ---- JShup <jshulman at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Here I sit sweating my butt off in the sweet FL heat... But no longer
> > > am I chasing the unknown. I got the Envision and promptly threw it
> > > together in 2 days (a record for me lol) without truly seeing where
> > > any of the settings were. After a few flights I got the plane 'mixed
> > > and trimmed'. Wondering about some settings I had, I sent a text to
> > > Mark Hunt to find out where my cg range should be (actual spot at the
> > > wing root).  I give him the numbers he needs, he draws it out real
> > > quick and gives me a range. I was at the front of the range so now I
> > > knew where to play with the cg. To my delight, all of the mixes were
> > > 5% and less. Looked like we hit it really close off the bat. Then I
> > > start fine tuning the mixes and in comes some strange S
> > > mixes....hmmmmmm. No biggie, it's still less than 7% all around; I can
> > > live with that.
> > >
> > > But that curiousity cat got to me and I leveled the fuse out and
> > > checked over everything. LOL wow.... Turns out that I really missed my
> > > alignment of the firewall install (I'm NOT a builder so I'm ok with it
> > > lol) and I had some positive upthrust... oops. Out comes the 1/32"
> > > plywood and shims are made. Then I check the wings... Hey I got
> > > something right lol. They're set positive to about where they felt
> > > good so no adjusting needed on them, yet. Then the stabs. Just
> > > eyeballing them with my 'calibrated eye' they looked to be LE
> > > (positive?) up. After checking the meter, yep, LE up. So I get ready
> > > to send Chip an email about where the stabs should be according to the
> > > fuse marks and he happens to call. We talk about my trimming and it
> > > hits him... The marks haven't been moved on the first 2 planes...
> > > Bingo (that's why I'm glad to get the first planes, I don't mind
> > > working out the bugs if it means future planes are correct). So I put
> > > a 2nd adjuster pin tube in the fuse right under the original tube for
> > > the adjuster pin and after some adjusting I get them set.
> > >
> > > So once I know where everything is, I shoot Bryan a text and tell him
> > > where I'm at and he laughs and writes me back a novel text. So I
> > > answer what I can in book format and then get another novel in return.
> > > Poor Bryan, I can only imagine him texting these responses back to me
> > > lol. So to spare us both the texting, I gave him a ring and we talked
> > > about everything it's doing. So he tells me where to set motor/wing/
> > > stab/cg according to what I tell him it's doing and that brings me to
> > > today. The mixes are still less than 6% and I don't have anymore S
> > > point mixes. I'm still dabbling with fine tuning as it's a little
> > > windy out but it feels soo much better.
> > >
> > > Thanks to:
> > > Chip, Marcelo and the CA Models crew for helping bring the Envision to
> > > life
> > > Mark Hunt for the quick cg range before his trip to the contest
> > > Bryan Hebert for the endless answers to my setting up/trimming
> > > questions... yet again
> > >
> > > Jason
> >
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