BORN LOSER C OF G

We had a question a few days ago about the balance point of the Born Loser.
I put the question to Kermit Walker, who made this model, and here's his response. Kermit has a medical procedure coming up next week and we wish him all the best. T

I got my Born Loser out and checked its C of G is (fore and aft balance point, more correctly). It balances roughly 1/2" back from the leading edge of the TOP wing. I seem to remember starting out with the "CG" a bit further back (like at roughly the LE of the bottom wing), but had to add a bit of nose weight. It also has quite a bit of left rudder - like at least 1/8" and maybe more. It also has quite a bit of washin in both left wings - something like 1/8" in the bottom wing and more like maybe 5/32"/3/16" in the upper wing. The right wing panels are roughly flat, as is the horizontal stabilizer. I did make a provision for an adjustable incidence stab (fixed middle spar, with the LE "floating" in a tapered slot in the fuselage and the LE just tack-glued to the front of the slot. I started out with the LE of the stab at roughly half way down the tapered slot (like maybe 1/16" negative) and have never found it necessary to change (figures! if I had made it "fixed" with no adjustment possible, it would've needed some!). I would probably set up the model with different adjustments for outdoors - like maybe 1/2 as much left rudder and washin in the left wings. The amount of left rudder I have in it now is to be able to get it to circle tight enough consistently so as to not hit the walls at St. V's gym Oh, also, I have just a smidge of right thrust built into it. Please feel free to use whatever of the above you might feel to useful on the website. --Kermit Walker