Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:55:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b6) with ESMTP id 1689275 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:39:15 -0400 Received: from pacbell.net ([216.102.197.123]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H0Y00A4O0TE1K@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:39:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:37:16 -0700 From: dave morss Subject: re aerobatics X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List X-Original-Message-id: <3D5D1C2C.7000002@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 The reason a heavier engine is worse is it has more polar inertia away from the c/g. also why wing fuel is bad. Remember a heavier engine also means weight behind the c/g to balance it thus increasing the polar moments twice. dave