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Thanks for the input guys.

42 pounds is surprisingly light - we put the plane on our EZ balancer which sat on top of a wooden platform on an accurate bathroom scale. The first reading came in at 39 pounds which seemed improbable so we double checked the zero and the weight of the balancer & wood and came up with 42lbs. It was built light by using cans instead of pipes, fewer servos (2x8711s in each wing, 3 for rudder, 1 in each stab all running on 7 volts). Since weighing we added 90g of lead to balance the elevators and a smoke tank. We have a fish scale due to arrive this week and will re-weigh it and let you know what we get.

Based on your posts, some phone calls from other 3.3M pilots, and a few PMs it looks like 2/3 of planes are flown with the wings in the forward position. Since no one knows what their CG is, it must be irrelevant.

Another question: are the travel distances in the manual for the aileron and elevator enough? If not what did you do?

Did anyone play with the wing or stab incidence?

Phil