On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Steven A Eberhart wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Marc LeFevre wrote:
>
> > Thanks to those of you who responded to my recent posting. This is
> > a very useful way of carrying on the discussions that one needs in
> > making a decision as to what plane to build.
> >
> [snip]
> > I'd also like to ask those of you that are well along in your kits to
> > estimate about how much of the overall build time will be filling and
> > sanding the wing and tail surfaces. The tedium of that process could
> > be the thing that makes me become a tin bender rather than an expoxy
> > slosher.
>
> Marc,
>
> The amount of time needed to finish the wing and stabilizer are very
> disproportionate to the amount of work necessary for the remainder of the
> plane IM(not so)HO. I don't have a plane under construction, planing on
> starting this winter but I am getting ready to build several test
> horizontal stabilizer sections to work out the details of vacuum baging
> the wings and tail. Vacuum bagging the assemblies should save close to
> half of the total building time. I havn't used the procedure on a full
> size plane but I have been using FG, carbon fiber and kevlar on radio
> control model airplanes for a while now. R/C modelers have been vacuum
> bagging foam wings for quite some time now with very good results.
>
> I am hot wire cutting the cores from blue insulation foam. I have
> attempted to copy the plan form, airfoil and cross section of the horiz.
> stabilizer as closely as I can with out actual drawings or templates from
> Ivan. I will advise all on the mail group of the successes or failures
> of this venture.
>
> Just got off of the phone with Bob Berube from the Lakeland office and he
> is sending additional info to assist in me being able to match the
> production stab. with my test panels. They are in the process of
> building a demonstrator using the wet layup method. Hope to be able to
> compare the wet layup vis-a-vis vacuum bagging.
>
> Steve
>
If you can get me the airfoil designator (i.e. 65012) used on the tail we
could generate either a coordinate listing (We have the NASA airfoil
generator program for most airfoils) or also plot full sized templates.
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