REFLECTOR: Leveling the plane

[Keith Hallsten]

Newer-style incidence gauges?  This is the first I have heard of them!  I
got my kit in '99 and got the 1/4" plywood with a plastic line level
hot-glued to it.  Of course, the line level has fallen off, so I just set a
torpedo level on the flat side.  Is there something significantly better
available?

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Pat Shea
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:20 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Leveling the plane

If you really want to know...

Use the method described in the manual to level the
fuselage in pitch (water level from nose to tail using
reference points for your model).

Use a water level from the bottom of the spar to where
the nose of the strake meets the fuselage using the
reference points for your model (look in strake
building section of manual).    

Place a small level on the engine and/or cabin side of
firewall face. This is probably the least accurate.

Use the newer style incidence gauges from the factory
that require a regular level to be placed on them.

Based on the above readings, pick a spot to call level
and then add some reference marks for future leveling.
If the fuselage level is off a little, it's not big
deal. What's more important is that the relative
wing-to-canard incidence is correct.  

Pat

  


--- Jim Sower <canarder at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Larry,
> You're quite right of course.  My wing template
> doesn't fit exactly, and 
> when I said the level is cheap and chinzy, I meant
> not able to detect 
> small errors (large error to move bubble just a
> little) and glued onto 
> to template in what looks to be a pretty half-assed
> fashion.  I'll check 
> again backing it up with a more accurate level to
> try and quantify just 
> how "inaccurate" it is.  And I may just revisit my
> notion that's it's 
> really important to know the exact fuselage
> incidence if you can 
> determine the wing and canard incidence with
> acceptable accuracy.
> Thanks ... Jim S.
 


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