REFLECTOR: Weight and Balance

Tom & Loretta Irion tirion at comcast.net
Wed Mar 19 18:03:58 CDT 2008


Craig,
I would love a copy. I just received my XLFG (fastbuild) in December, so it
will be awhile before I get to the W&B.
tirion at comcast.net

Tom I


On 3/19/08 5:14 AM, "Craig and Denise Woolston" <cdwoolston at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Just sent Keith and Brett number for a weighing we did last weekend on our
> completed XLFG.  Let me know if anyone else wants them and I can send them
> outside the reflector (.xls files)
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Brett Ferrell
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:33 PM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: REFLECTOR: Weight and Balance
> 
> I would really like to get some example of weight and balances for other
> XL's that have fixed pitch props (I've got a parallel valve 540 with a
> Catto).  I've done my W&B, and although the total weight seems
> reasonable, I'm coming out very nose heavy, and my test pilot (Dave
> Bertram) says his RG can fly with 4-200lbs guys in it (and he flys with
> 40 lbs of ballast in the nose solo)....  My nose weight is over 100 lbs
> when empty, and my empty arm is in the the flight box, and apparently
> the empty arm should be well aft of the flight envelope.
> 
> Brett
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