I had tried to answer an email question about Legionairs. It came back so Terminal Eagle... here's your reply...
Hi Tim, Legionairs fly very well, for a model of their time. They were ahead of their time. The last 140 I built was the red-white-and blue one on Ray's site. I built the main spars like a Houston Hawk, and used a steel tube joiner. It was a bit heavy but it flew very well, and launched at least as well as the bagged models. Legionair setup is a bit tricky. The bottom of the wing has to be parallel to the stab for the decalage to be set correctly, and it's not a wing that likes a sharp leading edge. The radius shown is not quite round enough. I used a full 1/4 square for the leading edge so I could make a slightly larger radius. It will be a dog with the decalage set wrong, or the CG too far forward. The CG shown on the plans is OK, but it will fly better with it further back. I trimmed mine by setting the decalage, setting the elevator to 0, and moved the CG back until it got pretty squirriley. I then added a touch of down trim and usually flew it right there. One word of caution, keep the empennage as light as possible. The nose moment is short, and it requires a lot of lead with a heavy tail. Ray added some harder wood for the tail pedestal. I would use some light balsa instead. I'm going to start on my last one just after the SWC contest. It will be a 132 with 2" added to the tail moment. I have a 100" to repair... From what I see, Ray's kits are of better quality than the originals. Best of luck with it. I will always have a Legoinair... :D Jack Womack -- schrederman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ schrederman's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=13218 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=811435 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
