X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:01:23 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail.fullspectrumia.com ([173.195.187.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.1) with ESMTPS id 6004665 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:15:34 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=173.195.187.37; envelope-from=hamer@theunion.net X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.4] (208-106-62-39.dynamic-dsl.fullspectrumia.com [208.106.62.39]) by mail.fullspectrumia.com (IceWarp 9.2.1) with ESMTP id VQY87557 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:14:57 -0800 From: Howard Hamer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: 235 vs 320 differences X-Original-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:14:56 -0800 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Spam-IndexStatus: 0 A friend purchased a flying early 320 and soon remarked to me about how = squirrely it flew. I told him that my 235 didn't have any of the bad = characteristics he was describing. When we examined the CG in our = individual airplanes we found his CG was much further aft than mine in = my 235. He added a nine pound dampener to the end of the crank and that = moved the CG forward and the aircraft flew much better, but he still was = not happy with its flying characteristics. As I recall fairly early in = the 320 production Lancair started offering an extended engine mount and = longer cowl to address the CG problem. Rusty=