Robert Overmars wrote:

ANY aeroplane that has such an enormous difference in wing(tip) incidence is nothing short of a deathtrap in my opinion. 

I plan to use the builders' workshop at Lancair in Frbruary, and I fully expect that by then they will be able to document all measurements within a fraction of a percent.  Continuous improvement is required of all companies who expect to remain in business and Lancair is not run by a bunch of dummies.   However I do not believe that their errors are unique, nor do I believe that these errors alone are responsible for the accidents.  Consider the hand layups in all the early Rutan designs.  These wings and canards are hand made without molds by first time builders, but still they are not falling out of the sky.  Glasairs?  Wings are slide through holes hand cut into the fuselage.  Methinks something besides inexact angles alone is causing the problem.  


Robert M. Simon,  (ES-P on order!)