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Weight and moment problem that is beyond my education level!
yep i didnt see my own error. the 2588 should be at sta 333.5 not 33.5 sorry- helicopterguy
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- Forum: Rotorcraft engineering
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Weight and moment problem that is beyond my education level!
It may be more simple to look at the problem as: Take an aircraft with a total weight of 28633 lbs with a CG at sta 332.92. If scales were placed at stations 245 and 515 what would they read?- helicopterguy
- Post #5
- Forum: Rotorcraft engineering
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Weight and moment problem that is beyond my education level!
Greg, thanks for your reply but what I was saying was that the items can be combined to a single added weight to simplify things. And the way that is done is by taking each item and multiplying the weight by the arm to get the moment, dividing the sum of the moments by the sum of the weights...- helicopterguy
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- Forum: Rotorcraft engineering
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Weight and moment problem that is beyond my education level!
The basic gist: We are preparing to crane an aircraft on top of some concrete pylons in order to conduct some testing. What I need is to be able to calculate the weight at both the forward and aft landing gear. Calculating CG is easy but this one has me stumped. Here are the figures I have to...- helicopterguy
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