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<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Hi again all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Sorry to rabbit on about this, but I have some more questions...or should that be, seeking ideas. I realise that I am probably getting caught up on something that really doesn't matter ...but here goes anyway.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Like I said in an earlier post..I will simply build two sets of stabs and see for myself...but I cant help trying to get inside Quique's or the Matt's head on this one. Or should that perhaps be Monsieur Lemmonier?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">On the weekend, I realised I made a small measurement error, when reverse engineering the plan form of the stabs. I can live with the fact that they arrived at a small elevator design, but I can see no relationship other than area.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">What has me rattled is that the hinge line of the elevators is swept forward....on both the Lazulite and the Partner, there is no relationship between chord percentages, the area's kind of work out..but how did they arrive at the distribution???</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">So I assumed that they jigged the stabs up wrong when boring the stab tube hole..but this appears to not be the case, as the root( fuz) angles are correct. So I looked at the aileron hinge line angle to see if there is a relationship there, but there appears not. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">On elevators, I have either always used chord percentages or placed the hinge line square to the Fuz CL, with great success. Using ( even) chord percentages results in a hinge line being swept back...not forward ( depending on plan form ofcourse)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">So does anyone out there talk to Quique? Could someone ask him about this?</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"> As the once famous Professor Julius Summner Miller said..'why is this so'? Did they make half a dozen stabs and try them empirically. I have not seen a Smaragd..did it have a square hinge line? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">My limited knowledge has me baffled on this one...its not that important...I just want to know why!</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">Thank you again to all of you who have contributed to this one.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">best regards</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS">(curious) Tom</FONT>
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