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Warbirds Replicas FW190 2023 version - a VLOG of the build


Ron Gray
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Glad you mentioned that, I’ve now removed 2/3rds of the weight which moves the CG back to 90 mm back from F2 but I think I can remove all of the weight which will move it back to approximately 100mm back.

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1 hour ago, Ron Gray said:

Glad you mentioned that, I’ve now removed 2/3rds of the weight which moves the CG back to 90 mm back from F2 but I think I can remove all of the weight which will move it back to approximately 100mm back.

That is excellent news. Drops my expected take off weight by a fair chunk - suspect I can hit 90mm without any ballast. Very pleased by that news, I must say!

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A CoG update, I removed all of the additional noseweight before flying yesterday and can report that it flies perfectly OK with it like that, it is not over sensitive on the elevator and inverted requires less ‘down’ as you would expect. TBH when I carried out a CG flying test it indicated that it was still a bit nose heavy, but I’m OK with it as it is. I didn’t measure the CG position but will do that later and publish on here. 
 

My only issue now is restraining myself from flying it like a Reno racer but even at WOT boy is it planted and completely non scale knife edge passes are rock solid!

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Here's my take on the dolly that I intend to use for all the mass built aircraft and a couple of other warbirds I have.

 

Materials: 

  • 15mm x 2m plastic water pipe with 4 elbows and 8 self tapping screws to fix them to the front and rear braces
  • 2x 120mm and 1 x 90 mm 2x Avios Bushmule wheels  

  • 8 x 32 x 650mm wood piece ( Central connector)

  • 16 x 16 x 80mm square wood piece (front brace and rear wheel supports) 

  • 2 x 80x100mm  pieces of 6mm ply for the front and rear wheel bases)

  • 1 x old landing gear (mine with 48 cm width)

  • 3mm x 100mm piano wire and 2 x 10mm fuel pipe as spacers for the rear wheel

  • 2 x 8mmx8mm square bass wood pieces.

  • 2 x 40mm x 100 mm shrink tube

  • 8 x 4mm x 30mm nuts/bolts

  • 4 x undercarriage fixing clamps and 8 self tapping crews

  • 2m 15mm foam pipe insulation for the seats

Overall size of the dolly is ca 75 cm by 32 cm. NOT FIELD TESTED YET!!

 

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