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<P>Just curiosity. When you said "add 1/32 right thrust", means to add to the one is already set at the nose ring? Is 1/32" is at the tip of the prop?</P>
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<P>Thanks,<BR><BR>Vicente "Vince" Bortone<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Verne Koester" <verne@twmi.rr.com><BR>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:28:31 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central<BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Integral Landing gear<BR><BR>John,<BR>With the stab at 0, make the wing .5 positive, reduce the down thrust to .5<BR>down, and ADD 1/32 right thrust. I'm currently finishing my third one and<BR>got it right on the second one. Now I'm just duplicating it. Actually, the<BR>first one flew great but needed some mixing. With the settings I just gave<BR>you, it'll track straight forever on either knife edge with no mix. The<BR>extra right thrust was to eliminate a slight left drift at the top of tall<BR>verticals. I left the stab at the factory position and called that 0. Your<BR>wing will actually be slightly negative to that so you'll need to increase<BR>the incidence to .5. The nose ring has a little over 2 degrees down so<BR>you'll need to remove 1.5 degrees from that. Can't help on the gear, I used<BR>Bolly F3A Longs. BTW, set the CG at the LE of the wing tube or just a little<BR>rearward of that, like 1/8" or so. Hope this helps.<BR><BR>Verne Koester<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org<BR>[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of John Gayer<BR>Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:39 AM<BR>To: NSRCA Mailing List<BR>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Integral Landing gear<BR><BR><BR>The landing gear legs I received with my Integral weigh 6 ounces and are <BR>very rigid as well. I noticed that when Jason listed the weights of the <BR>components on RC Universe that the gear legs were listed at 3.2 ounces <BR>which is a substantial difference.<BR>This will be powered by a YS 170. I haven't checked yet but I intend to <BR>add adjusters if necessary to achieve stab incidence of 0.0 degrees and <BR>a wing incidence of +0.5 degrees.<BR><BR> I have three questions that I would like to resolve before I get any <BR>further along.<BR><BR>1. Is there a replacement gear that is lighter and in particular more <BR>flexible? Height of the gear should be about 8 inches.<BR>2. Should the downthrust be reduced from the approximately 2 degrees <BR>built into the nose ring to about 0.5 degrees down or ?<BR>3. Should the sidethrust be reduced?<BR><BR>Would appreciate help from those of you who have already run into these <BR>problems and found solutions that are working for you.<BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<BR></P></div></body></html>