Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:56:19 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com ([204.127.198.39] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b2) with ESMTP id 2102589 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:50:19 -0500 Received: from attbi.com (h0050e4f9850f.ne.client2.attbi.com[66.30.42.21]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with SMTP id <20030403135018053002lv8ge>; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:50:18 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <3E8BF51E.1030601@attbi.com> X-Original-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:47:26 +0100 From: "Angier M. Ames" Reply-To: N2811A@attbi.com Organization: Alpha Delta Research User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: Rudder Balancing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, The time has come to add weight to the lower leading edge of the rudder. I understand the concept elevator and aileron balancing to avoid flutter possibilities but I'm not sure about the reasons for weight in the rudder since it is not 100% mass balanced. The manual simply tells you to do it but does not give a reason why. Perhaps one of you could explain. Off to SnF this morning so I'm sure I'll get an answer there...just thought this might be of interest to this group. Angier Ames