alpinelakespilot2000
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After fitting the wings a couple times, my wing tip triangulation to aft-fuse is absolutely perfect but I have 3/16" forward sweep remaining in each wing. Van's indicates within 1/2" is OK on both the triangulation and sweep, but do they care whether the sweep is forward or aft? It's just the fuselage fork causing the sweep and I can certainly file it down some more to get a more neutral sweep. I'm certainly happy to aim for perfection, but I'm just wondering if I'm getting too greedy and tempting fate for the future drilling of the rear spar.
Since Van's is closed for the weekend I though I'd see what others have learned. I'm kind of wondering if I leave a small bit of forward sweep will my RV-9 require fifty supercomputers just for straight and level flight. (Remember the X-29, or whatever it was from about 20 years ago that had forward swept wings?)![Eek! :eek: :eek:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Since Van's is closed for the weekend I though I'd see what others have learned. I'm kind of wondering if I leave a small bit of forward sweep will my RV-9 require fifty supercomputers just for straight and level flight. (Remember the X-29, or whatever it was from about 20 years ago that had forward swept wings?)
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