Oh no. I was so super stoked that you'd got to the airport and were the close to first flight, but like the rest of your build, I admire how you react so quickly to a set back. You'll be aloft soon.

Smart move addressing W&B. You are a consummate professional.

Very exciting. It looks great. It sounds like you have a good plan forward too. Thanks for sharing! Peace and love..Suz What ☮️💛

Rather then using plate, can you use angle? The strength would be substantially higher. Looks great setting in a hanger😀

I’m building my tail section from minimax. Seems like this would be less challenging than moving the engine forward (controls,moving mounts, hoses etc.) Good Luck the plane really looks great.

Bummer about the CG. You'll get it. Looking great.

Bummer about thr CG, but very exciting steps! She's in her new nest!

Put your battery in the nose, get a sealed lead acid battery.

Now you get it to the hangar and all together, ... you can sit in it and make flying sounds! YeeeeeOwwwwwmmm! Uh uh uh uh uh uh! Curse you RED BARON! 😱😁😝🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇲

You likely wont gain much forward weight of the CG by miving the engine a few inches. Youre likely better to add a bit of weight to the front or counter it by adjusting the horizontal stabilizer. Id try a few bunny hops down the runway before id do anything else.

Finally a new plane in it's hangar. Are those bullet holes in the hangar walls or just ventilation?

Dennis. I'm on board with the other commenters who suggest using some ballast weight (what would it take, by your calculations?) at "Station O."? Or add wt to the engine. Would be a hell-of-a-lot easier fix. Probably won't be a great loss of speed,. However, you might be at the top end of your gross weight, and not have full fuel. Is 6lbs per gallon as I recall. But you are not a heavy person. You might be able to pull off this ballast wt thing. For comparison, my EROS' empty weight was 396lbs. Can't recall exactly, but my CG was at the optimum % of my MAC. I had a 503 installed. For the hell of it, I'd use the additional weight, but easily removed , - calc the CG again, then "go fly" and see what "flight numbers" you get. It would be a shame to go through all of that additional work of moving the engine and then find out your "flight numbers" are not much different than with the ballast. Your plane looks super nice. Congratulations. N6395T p.s. Oh, back when, I did help a friend of mine on his "P51-51." He had added so many bells and whistles, that we would have had to move his engine forward 8 inches! All of the cowlings were done, etc. It never flew.

Looks great in the hangar! Could you bolt some lead to the firewall to move the CG forward, or would that be too much weight penalty at that moment arm position?

Are you going to build up the wood at the front end to make it match the plate for looks and then there are those cut out as well. A big chunk of work so sorry for you but as the saying goes a plane with a forward CofG flys baddly one with a rear CofG flies once.

Looks beautiful Dennis, with those plates you need to add, would you use Angle Iron so you have some vertical tension to stop it potentially flexing & causing other issues with the thrust line etc? Is it not possible/practical to add a weight plate that connects the two front engine mount pieces together? Kind of like the weight plates the front wheel drive drag cars use (They also make bolt on Lead weights for weight bias balance) I can envision making a lower front cowling that follows the underside curve of the nose. wish I could draw a picture on here to explain the way I'm thinking ha ha. Working in Beautiful remote Yorke Peninsula this week, the days are getting longer & warmer slowly. Thanks for another great video & the Aviation Community is awesome! Cheers, Leo. (Man that was a lot of typing ha ha)

Dennis , when you added the inspection panel under the tail , how did you glue the ring and what glue did you use that worked on top of existing paint ? RiP

Never saw a T hanger like that. Is it 4 sided?