Hi All, I thought I'd share this with you.
I collected my plane 2 weeks ago with a hangpoint adjuster mechanism fitted to it. The best money I have spent in a long time. The speed envelope is 35 mph to 75 mph. Its no GT450, but it works for me!
Check out the pics. :D
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. A bit on the expensive side but I can now fly with most trikes fast or slow....well worth it I think. :D-
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Hand point adjuster
Massimo
I made a hang point adjuster and fitted to an old Windlass trike with a large 19 square meter wing. It used a car wiper motor, and was a lttle weak (I had to move the wing from side to side while activating the switch to assist the movement) This trike flew at 42 mph standard. Moving the wing forward by 75 mm made this trike fly at 55 mph. A smaller wing would have given more. I removed it when I sold this trike (did not want to be responsible if it failed and caused th new owner any harm).
I recently bought a topless wing from Jenya, and this is the next mod I want to do to my aerie. My keel tube has around 80 mm of clearance from the blade tips static if you push the wing out against the profile tube. Normally carbon fibre blades do flex forward slightly in flight, and I am not sure what the clearance is then. It will make a very expensive noise if you push the bar out and the blade tips catch the back end of the keel tube.
I would recommend checking this with the wing trimmed to the forward position.
I'll have to talk to Jenya about shortening the back-end of the keeltube before I can safely fit one of these.
The adjuster shown here is from Aeros, it is well made and very strong. The adjuster with bracket alone is around R 7,000. Expensive, but could be worth it, depending on how you look at it.
Regards
Barry
I made a hang point adjuster and fitted to an old Windlass trike with a large 19 square meter wing. It used a car wiper motor, and was a lttle weak (I had to move the wing from side to side while activating the switch to assist the movement) This trike flew at 42 mph standard. Moving the wing forward by 75 mm made this trike fly at 55 mph. A smaller wing would have given more. I removed it when I sold this trike (did not want to be responsible if it failed and caused th new owner any harm).
I recently bought a topless wing from Jenya, and this is the next mod I want to do to my aerie. My keel tube has around 80 mm of clearance from the blade tips static if you push the wing out against the profile tube. Normally carbon fibre blades do flex forward slightly in flight, and I am not sure what the clearance is then. It will make a very expensive noise if you push the bar out and the blade tips catch the back end of the keel tube.
I would recommend checking this with the wing trimmed to the forward position.
I'll have to talk to Jenya about shortening the back-end of the keeltube before I can safely fit one of these.
The adjuster shown here is from Aeros, it is well made and very strong. The adjuster with bracket alone is around R 7,000. Expensive, but could be worth it, depending on how you look at it.
Regards
Barry
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