Gavin Donohoe wrote: > Is it true that with the new vert stab it's a couple of inches higher?? as I see it the profile plans say the top rib should be 34 inches above the top longeron and this puts it well above the old one on the plans. This means that instead of the tail post being 40" tall it has to be 45".<
You can make it whatever height you want. There's been absolutely no aero engineering put into those tail templates whatever. It's a pure SWAG, but uses real airfoils, rather than the cartoons used in the plans, and the horizontal stab spars are thicker, thus stronger, allowing them to be longer if desired. Those templates are simply how I made mine, not necessarily a recommendation as to how anybody else should make theirs. I'm going to have lots of power, so I built in extra vertical stab and rudder. If you're going to use an 1835cc VW or something, make it stock height. Whatever you want to do... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
