This message is directed to a small group of new molded supra owners, and probably not of interest to other.
I have an excel spread sheet I would be happy to send to any other Molded Supra owner who has not yet started assembly of their newly arrived "baby". I only ask that you weight all the raw kit parts and add your weights to the sheet and return the sheet to me. I am not a weight weenie, but I started this exercise to try and determine a couple of things. First thing I was curious about was the exact weight difference between the carbon wing lay-up and the standard wing lay-up. Barry talked around it and didn't give a precise answer. The next thing, I am trying to understand why some people are talking about having to add on the order of 4 oz of nose weight to balance. Was this due to variations in fin, stab, boom, or pod weights, or is this inherent to the molded design? What have I found out so far with raw weights from 2 planes (#34 and #48), left and right wing tips and joiners are VERY equal in weight - good. Besides the type of wing lay-up, the most variation in weight has shown up in the tail boom. One boom weighed 63g and the other 73g, on the order of a 15% variation and who wants extra weight aft of the cg. don -----Original Message----- From: James V. Bacus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Molded Supra #34 I weighed all the parts of the raw model this evening, because Don Barker, the owner of brand new Supra #48 with a carbonfibre wing layup wanted to compare the raw differences. He built a spreadsheet with all the separate parts weighed and sent it to me, and I filled out a second tab of the spreadsheet with all my part weights and sent it back to him. I wont get into all the details here, but here are the overall totals: #34 - Fibreglass layup raw structural weight: 44.69 oz. #48 - Carbonfibre layup raw structural weight: 49.5 oz. Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net 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 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
