When I bought my Starduster, we disassembled it and hauled it home. We marked the flying wires with tape and reassembled it. I checked the incidents and dihedral with a level, but found the rigging board discussion in the plans complicated in the way they describe building the dihedral into the boards, so I got lazy and skipped that part.
When I put it together after repairs. And thanks to discussions here I built simple boards and found major twist in the upper wing.
That allowed removing the large tab on the right aileron and now it flies fairly hands off, stalls dead ahead with no wing drop, needs a touch of right rudder in Cruise, almost no rudder in a left turn, fairly significant rudder for right. I have the 5/8” offset in the vertical stabilizer and built the motor mount with the down and right offset. Where do I start to balance that out?
Chris.
When I put it together after repairs. And thanks to discussions here I built simple boards and found major twist in the upper wing.
That allowed removing the large tab on the right aileron and now it flies fairly hands off, stalls dead ahead with no wing drop, needs a touch of right rudder in Cruise, almost no rudder in a left turn, fairly significant rudder for right. I have the 5/8” offset in the vertical stabilizer and built the motor mount with the down and right offset. Where do I start to balance that out?
Chris.
