You obviously haven't read that bit of my log.....
I was working on the ailerons one evening when Carol called me in for dinner.
I put the ailerons down on the floor behind the car as the rest of my
workspace was full. After dinner Carol asked me to go and get some milk so I
got in the car, opened the garage door and reversed! The slight bump reminded
me where my ailerons were so, muttering politely under my breath (not), I got
out to inspect them. There wasn't a mark on them, even where the car had gone
over the flange! I decided to scrap them anyway and got in a new set of cores
---From Europa. Did you know you can actually make a pair of ailerons in a week.
As an exercise I decide to test one to destruction. It took a _lot_ of effort
with a large sledge hammer before I could get it to crack. The force required
to break the aileron really surprised me and has given me a lot of confidence
in moldless composite construction.
I mentioned this incident to Ivan while I was up there and he said that I
needn't have bothered scrapping them!
Tony
> Tony K,
> Surely you_ "didn't"_, did you??? :-(((
> >
> >If you build it according to instructions it is just fine. If you want a
> >confidence builder have a go at driving over one of your ailerons :-)
> >
> Reg
> T.R.
>
>
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Kaon Technologies Fx 64 9 520 3321
Auckland New Zealand
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