Paul Visk wrote: >You'll notice he has adjustment holes in his lever that is welded to his >collar.
Yep, those collars are a wonderful way to fasten a bellcrank to a tube. They sell them at McMaster Carr, called "shaft collars". Of course it can be welded, but the collar allows easy adjustment, and there's no way it'll ever slip with these low loads on it. I put three holes in several bellcranks so I could experiment with stick forces and stick throw, but like everything else, I simply adapted to it quickly and never changed it from the middle hole. The stick is detailed at http://www.n56ml.com/kcontrol.html . That's kind of like the tachometer. After my third Tiny Tach croaked with only a few hours on the plane, I gave up on it and starting using the tach display on the EIS on the far right side of the panel. When I was designing the plane I wanted the tach right in front of me, hence the Tiny Tach, but I quickly got used to the tach in the EIS, and never noticed it afterwards. I put another hour on N891JF yesterday, practicing stalls induced by full-rudder slips while simulating glides to landing (at 4500'). I wanted to put an indicated airspeed number on where that happens, so I'd know what to avoid on final. It turned out that I got a pretty good wing drop at about 10 mph higher than a ball-centered stall, which is not surprising considering how low the wing was to start with. It recovered very easily, and I didn't lose much altitude, but I can see how if my reactions had been a bit slower, it could have been a quick stall/spin entry. N891JF has a forward CG though, so I'm not too worried about that. I do plan to increase horizontal and vertical stabilizer sizes one of these days though. It'll be interesting to see if there's any discernible speed difference. I'm betting it'll be a barely noticeable speed difference, if that. Mark Langford, Harvest, AL ML at N56ML.com www.N56ML.com
