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

[J Shu]

aside from me making pics look bad, I can't edit pics down enough to include 
on the list. I'll be taking a bunch of pics this weekend and post on RCU.

Regards,
Jason
www.jshulman.weebly.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Marshall" <lightfoot at sc.rr.com>
To: "'General pattern discussion'" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Once again... (Envision)


> You could have included a picture....
>
> Jay Marshall
>
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> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of JShup
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 5:27 PM
> To: Bryan Hebert; Chip Hyde
> Cc: General pattern discussion
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Once again... (Envision)
>
> 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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