To have a fair comparison with what Jerry is doing you would have to add

the

7.5 pound adapter plate for a total 21.5 pound less the main landing gear
as the RV8 you are putting the 20B in has a different..  separate landing
gear arrangement which weighs a whole bunch more :)

Jerry wins hand down at only 17 pounds with comparable configurations! :)

Have you checked the deflection of that adapter plate with a 600 foot

pound

prop gyro torque after you cut off 1.75 pounds? :)

Paul Lamar

Tracy Crook wrote:

Didn't check the deflection, I'd rather be flying : )
Some things are intuitively obvious.  If we stopped to fully analyze every
detail of the airplane, it would never fly.

Finally retrieved the RVotter from Treasure Coast airpark yesterday.  It
took 2 years, 4 months to build and has given me over 8 years of great
flying.  Those  few extra pounds of engine mount weight seem like a small
price to pay for all those hours of flight.

Tracy

But of course Tracy. It would still fly with a 100 pound motor mount and
a bit of weight in the tail. We are striving for perfection in future
designs at a lower cost if possible. Since it takes the same amount of 
time to do it right.

Paul Lamar
 
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