Gash
Well Known Member
I am the second owner of my RV-8 kit, and it looks like we inherited a mistake from the last builder that wasn't caught earlier. This week we discovered that the wing incidence is 0.7 degrees less than Van's recommendation. <<CORRECTION: the wing incidence is 0.7 degrees more than recommended. Long story, but it comes down to me getting help with the wings and a miscommunication led me to believe it was negative as opposed to positive incidence error. Sorry for the confusion!>> Both wings have equal incidence. The horizontal stab incidence is perfect though.
So here are my questions:
1. How big of a deal is this? Is this going to be something I can trim out in flight and live with, or will it be unstable or possibly even dangerous?
2. Has anybody else had this problem before, and what should I do to fix it? I've done an extensive forum search and read of a few guys with too much wing incidence, but nobody with too little wing incidence.
Thank you in advance for any ideas from people who can help with this. As you can imagine, I'm working hard to suppress the panic that something like this causes.
So here are my questions:
1. How big of a deal is this? Is this going to be something I can trim out in flight and live with, or will it be unstable or possibly even dangerous?
2. Has anybody else had this problem before, and what should I do to fix it? I've done an extensive forum search and read of a few guys with too much wing incidence, but nobody with too little wing incidence.
Thank you in advance for any ideas from people who can help with this. As you can imagine, I'm working hard to suppress the panic that something like this causes.
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