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1. 05:25 AM - Challenger long wing weight and ballance (kmccune)
2. 07:04 AM - Re: Challenger long wing weight and ballance (LarryMcFarland)
3. 12:51 PM - Re: Challenger long wing weight and ballance (kmccune)
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| Subject: | Challenger long wing weight and ballance |
Hi guys,
My buddy has built a long wing Challenger, he went for as light as possible so
he does not have a fiberglass nose cone and the engine is a 503. I sat in front
the other day and even when you push the nose down it popped back up. He says
its designed around a about a 200 lb person and the min pilot weight from his
W&B is 185. Well I know I'm not a heavy weight at 165 but it seems strange to
me that an airplane that needs a pilot in the cabin in order to sit level would
have this kind of a design goal. As it is if I want to fly it I'll have to
wear a dive belt! I know too that with the engine running the front comes down.
But it seems like it would not be very stable in the air like this unless you
were 200lbs?
Kevin
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| Subject: | Re: Challenger long wing weight and ballance |
Kevin,
For that type of problem, the helicopters use a movable weight to
compensate for the sensitive weight and balance. This would probably
work for the Challenger as well. A bag of lead shot would do.
Larry McFarland 601HDS at www.macsmachine.com
kmccune wrote:
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> Hi guys,
> My buddy has built a long wing Challenger, he went for as light as possible so
he does not have a fiberglass nose cone and the engine is a 503. I sat in front
the other day and even when you push the nose down it popped back up. He says
its designed around a about a 200 lb person and the min pilot weight from
his W&B is 185. Well I know I'm not a heavy weight at 165 but it seems strange
to me that an airplane that needs a pilot in the cabin in order to sit level
would have this kind of a design goal. As it is if I want to fly it I'll have
to wear a dive belt! I know too that with the engine running the front comes down.
But it seems like it would not be very stable in the air like this unless
you were 200lbs?
>
> Kevin
>
> --------
> Mark Twain: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
>
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Challenger long wing weight and ballance |
Oh man, I'll never live it down!
Thanks for the reply Larry!
Kevin
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Mark Twain: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=193448#193448
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