Original Posted By: Larry Nelson
Have any of you looked closely at Bingelis' weight and balance form for theEmeraude (page 298 of the Sportplane Builder" book - that's the blue one)?If you look in the top box - where it calculates the empty weight, it sureseems to me that the moment for REMOVING the oil should be POSITIVE 208.8inch pounds. Instead of Negative 208.8 inch pounds.I've done this every way I can think of and the only way that seems like itfits is if it's Positive, Can't tell about the ballast because he doesn'tsay where it's located but if it's in front of the datum it should bepositive too.Maybe I missed something - or else it's a mistake.PSI included a picture of Larry Harrison's Flying Flea - We did the W&B on itSunday. By the way, he's started on yet another Piet. It's gonna be sweet,too. Got the fuselage complete. Wing's already built.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:31:28 -0700 (PDT)