Your CG really will not change in the air. Just be careful where you put the gear for ground CG. Don't overload the nose gear. Why do you want to get rid of the tail wheel?
--- Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > Robert Evans wrote: > > > I have been looking for information about > retrofitting my > > KR2 from conventional/retract to Tricycle gear. > Anyone have a good idea > > where I could find some info on the W/B > ramifications etc. > > I've never done it, so you should probably ignore > this comment, but if I'm > wrong somebody will correct me. People do this > conversion all the time and > I've never heard anybody mention a CG shift problem > (although you should > certainly check it and fix it if it's not correct). > It makes sense that > after swapping the gear from the rear of the main > spar to the front of the > main spar that moving the light tailwheel from the > back (with the long > moment arm) and adding the heavier nosewheel (with > the shorter moment arm) > to the front would just about balance out. You > could always call Dan Diehl > and get the scoop from the guy that makes the parts. > His phone number (as > well as instructions for the swap itself) can be > found at > http://www.diehlaero.com/landing.htm . > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at > http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates (http://voice.yahoo.com)
