28% Edge 540T Assembly Manual
Quick start guide and hints. Read me first.
This page is the place to start if you are an experienced builder. It will save you
a lot of time. If you are not an experienced builder, read it anyway, you may not
need to go any further.
Hints and notes.
Almost everyone likes to make improvements so here are
some hints to improve the plane and the experience. You will notice that I am
very big on redundant systems. Multiple of everything is the safest way to go.
Use washers and lock washers on the h-stab retaining screws. You can use a lit-
tle blue loctite, but too much or using red loctite will probably cause the blind
nuts to rip out when you try to remove the screws.
Before installing rudder controls wait until the airplane is completed and check
the balance. You can use pull-pull if little or no tail weight is needed, otherwise
there are two servo mounts in the tail for rudder servos if the plane is nose
heavy.
Use a backup engine kill device besides the throttle. I use a servo to actuate the
choke which can also be used to kill the engine, but a kill switch is a good solu-
tion also.
Balance the plane carefully. If you fly it tail heavy it can be beyond the ca-
pabilities of the best pilot. Balance initially at the front of the wing tube
or
about 5” behind the leading edge. The plane can be made to balance without
ballast if you do some planning as you install things.
1. Open and inspect everything. There should be a fuselage with hatch, wing
tube and stab tubes. Also 2 stabs w/elevators, rudder, landing gear and hard-
ware (nuts and bolts) package, cowl, canopy, wheel pants. Hinges are either
in the control surfaces or supplied separately, but they are not glued in yet.
2. Mount the engine so the prop drive hub is centered in the cowl ring and
