REFLECTOR: Wgt and Bal

[Terry Miles]

Go to the local gun shop and buy some lead shot.  Use knee high nylons.
Works great.  They fit into any shape you need.  The first few gallons of
gas added doesn't necessarily flow nicely into the sump tank.
Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Michalk
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:41 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Wgt and Bal

Well, it came out as bad as I had hoped.

This is a standard elite, fixed gear, Franklin/IVO.
confor foam seats
sound deadening material overhead and on firewall
dual batteries
turbo
dual intercoolers
wings built by Charlie Gray ... last set he produced

My empty weight with unusable fuel and oil is 1550lbs.
I was secretly hoping to not hit 1600 lbs.

The balance if pretty good.  Juanita flying solo will be at the aft
limit.  I'll have to test that to see if it's prudent for her to carry
ballast.

I was surprised to see the ARM move by about two inches while filling
the main tanks.  First 5 gallons, the arm is 125".  At 30 gallons, the
arm is 123.2".

There are tons of modifications.  All add their own two cents worth of
weight.

Terry Miles wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> How did the wgt and bal come out?
> 
> Terry
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