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

[Mark Hunt]

That's o.k......I'm betting the color scheme is pretty familiar...I can 
"envision" it now....;)

sorry...I just couldn't resist...

-mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Shu" <jshulman at cfl.rr.com>
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 20:45
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Once again... (Envision)


> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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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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