Original Posted By: Tim Willis
A new weight & balance was performed on Air Camper 41CCyesterday, since a major change was made to the airplane(engine change from A65 to A75). I am very pleased withthe results. Left main, 307#; right main, 304#; tailwheel25# for a total empty weight of 636 with 3 qts. of oil.This is an increase of only 3 lbs. over the A65, and almostentirely attributable to the addition of a smoke systemmount on the firewall and stainless steel exhaust stackson the engine. Everything else was pretty much a wash.Electronic, digital, factory-calibrated, race car scaleswere used and EAA Life Member and Chapter 35 Tech CounselorNorris Warner (Col., USAF, Ret.) conducted the operation.The airplane remains within 6 lbs. of the empty weight thatit sported when Corky first signed it off on 9/28/02, andthis despite me constantly adding things to it. The Hoopmanplans show an empty weight of 610 lbs. for the Air Camper,but that was without a steerable tailwheel, turn & bank,venturi, vertical speed indicator, ELT, VHF COMM antennawith ground plane and coax cable, or seatbelts and shoulderharness.Corky built the airplane about as light as they can be built.Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CCSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:07:17 -0400 (EDT)