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It may not be necessary, Rusty, I first ran mine on
the fuselage without wings. However, I have the nose wheel so the main
gear had to had a "fake" spar for the gear. I had no problem, but I also
did not have the tail surfaces attached, so no mass to torque that end of the
fuselage.
Good Luck
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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 6:20
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Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: First run
approaches
However, you will still have the
prop turning in one direction and fuselage trying to turn in the opposite
direction. I would bolt a wooden "fake" spar in main spar slot with at
least a couple of bolts each side and I would anchor the left side (sitting in
pilot's seat) to a ground tie down with a rope. That would ensure that
the CW turning prop (sitting in pilot's seat) would not be able to turn the
aircraft CCW.
That would probably
be the safest thing to do, but I just can’t imagine that it’s necessary.
I’m hoping that we have a few people here that can say they ran there’s with
no problems. Todd recently ran, and I assume it’s without the wings, but
he’s got that training wheel <G> on the front, so it might be
different. I know Tracy said he ran his
numerous times in his neighborhood, before first taking it to the airport, but
I didn’t ask about the details.
I don’t plan to do
anything more than make sure everything is working while running it at home,
so I’m not going to be blasting full throttle or anything.
Good Luck! Is this with
turbo on or not?
Ha! It has been hard
to keep up hasn’t it :-) Roger, turbo- manual wastegate, relief
valve currently set at 1.5 psi.
Rusty
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