Posted for "Eric M. Jones" <emjones@charter.net>:

Alain,

Thanks for the reply. You doubtlessly are more sophisticated than I.

In my Cessna I just chuck all loose water bottles, soda cans and bottles,
flight bags, E6Bs, boots, blankets, tool boxes, flashlights (day only),
spare headsets, glovebox contents, tie-downs, chocks, thermos bottles, oil
cans, gloves, fuel testers, flight manuals, blind flying hoods, and
logbooks, as far back into the tail as I can get them---until I get the
speed up to where I want it. I only need one hand to fly.

That must be hard in a B747, its a long throw!

Regards,
Eric M. Jones
www.PerihelionDesign.com
113 Brentwood Drive
Southbridge MA 01550-2705
Phone (508) 764-2072
Email: emjones@charter.net

".telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York
and his head meows in Los Angeles. And radio operates exactly the same way--
you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that
there is no cat."
    --Albert Einstein