How's your carpal tunnel, Brian? Send Jas the bill... LOL<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shinden1@cox.net">shinden1@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Glad I could help you again,Jason, I enjoy the challenge,of strange mixes LOL,<br>
Chip and C/A built a nice design,and the airplane looks great !<br>
I know you will be rewarded with your Efforts on your first Design,<br>
<br>
Bryan<br>
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---- JShup <<a href="mailto:jshulman@cfl.rr.com">jshulman@cfl.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Here I sit sweating my butt off in the sweet FL heat... But no longer<br>
> am I chasing the unknown. I got the Envision and promptly threw it<br>
> together in 2 days (a record for me lol) without truly seeing where<br>
> any of the settings were. After a few flights I got the plane 'mixed<br>
> and trimmed'. Wondering about some settings I had, I sent a text to<br>
> Mark Hunt to find out where my cg range should be (actual spot at the<br>
> wing root). I give him the numbers he needs, he draws it out real<br>
> quick and gives me a range. I was at the front of the range so now I<br>
> knew where to play with the cg. To my delight, all of the mixes were<br>
> 5% and less. Looked like we hit it really close off the bat. Then I<br>
> start fine tuning the mixes and in comes some strange S<br>
> mixes....hmmmmmm. No biggie, it's still less than 7% all around; I can<br>
> live with that.<br>
><br>
> But that curiousity cat got to me and I leveled the fuse out and<br>
> checked over everything. LOL wow.... Turns out that I really missed my<br>
> alignment of the firewall install (I'm NOT a builder so I'm ok with it<br>
> lol) and I had some positive upthrust... oops. Out comes the 1/32"<br>
> plywood and shims are made. Then I check the wings... Hey I got<br>
> something right lol. They're set positive to about where they felt<br>
> good so no adjusting needed on them, yet. Then the stabs. Just<br>
> eyeballing them with my 'calibrated eye' they looked to be LE<br>
> (positive?) up. After checking the meter, yep, LE up. So I get ready<br>
> to send Chip an email about where the stabs should be according to the<br>
> fuse marks and he happens to call. We talk about my trimming and it<br>
> hits him... The marks haven't been moved on the first 2 planes...<br>
> Bingo (that's why I'm glad to get the first planes, I don't mind<br>
> working out the bugs if it means future planes are correct). So I put<br>
> a 2nd adjuster pin tube in the fuse right under the original tube for<br>
> the adjuster pin and after some adjusting I get them set.<br>
><br>
> So once I know where everything is, I shoot Bryan a text and tell him<br>
> where I'm at and he laughs and writes me back a novel text. So I<br>
> answer what I can in book format and then get another novel in return.<br>
> Poor Bryan, I can only imagine him texting these responses back to me<br>
> lol. So to spare us both the texting, I gave him a ring and we talked<br>
> about everything it's doing. So he tells me where to set motor/wing/<br>
> stab/cg according to what I tell him it's doing and that brings me to<br>
> today. The mixes are still less than 6% and I don't have anymore S<br>
> point mixes. I'm still dabbling with fine tuning as it's a little<br>
> windy out but it feels soo much better.<br>
><br>
> Thanks to:<br>
> Chip, Marcelo and the CA Models crew for helping bring the Envision to<br>
> life<br>
> Mark Hunt for the quick cg range before his trip to the contest<br>
> Bryan Hebert for the endless answers to my setting up/trimming<br>
> questions... yet again<br>
><br>
> Jason<br>
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