Oh dear.... I've come over all smug, what with my 250 fuselage jig that holds
the
canoe
absolutely rigid and true (I had a twist in the tail too...)
M :>
> Our canoe is badly twisted by 0.6 degrees which we established
> after a full week of measuring the daylight out of the fuse. So, when
> we mounted the torque tube we had to use a special jig and later
> resorted to a water bucket pulling straight the back of the fuse to
> be able to glue in the torque tube at ZERO degree to the fuselage.
>
> Guess what we noticed after the bearings were in: removing the
> water balast and the fuse slipping back to 0.6 degrees to its old
> bad habit, the torque tube STIFFENED like you wouldn't believe.
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