Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:08 am
I would also suggest you go to Maule website, pull up the MM's on aircraft you're thinking of installing wings from and suspect you'll find very little difference between the short winged maules and the piper.... I believe the dimensions are at beginning of the manual? The M4 or M5, neither has an exceptionally long flap, nor wing for that matter!! The M4 rudder is almost of duplicate of pacer....
Also would suggest spending some time on Short Wing Piper website, as a lot of what you've mentioned has been tried. Over the years there have been several reiterizations of pacer, some work well, others not so well, but think you'd find them to be valuable resource. As I mentioned before, the ultimate pacer has a stretched fuselage, supercub wings, cub empennage, and is a heck of an airplane. If you're looking to put long maule wings on instead of cub for added fuel, you really need the longer wing with longer flaps which would be the universal or M6 wing. Both of these will require redesigning the pacer flap engagement system with some welding. If while on Maule site, you look at mod installing longer wings on M5, that will pretty much cover what will be required of the pacer as pacer / M4 / M5 all have very similar flap actuation systems... Good luck!
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Also would suggest spending some time on Short Wing Piper website, as a lot of what you've mentioned has been tried. Over the years there have been several reiterizations of pacer, some work well, others not so well, but think you'd find them to be valuable resource. As I mentioned before, the ultimate pacer has a stretched fuselage, supercub wings, cub empennage, and is a heck of an airplane. If you're looking to put long maule wings on instead of cub for added fuel, you really need the longer wing with longer flaps which would be the universal or M6 wing. Both of these will require redesigning the pacer flap engagement system with some welding. If while on Maule site, you look at mod installing longer wings on M5, that will pretty much cover what will be required of the pacer as pacer / M4 / M5 all have very similar flap actuation systems... Good luck!
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