----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Cable <s2cab...@yahoo.com> To: KR builders and pilots <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:45 PM Subject: Re: KR>Dihedral Question
> The original message was subject line: Spar and glue. > and was the response from Colin Rainey dated 14 Sep > 2003. The intent of my message was advocating the > dihedral outboard of the fuselage. > --- Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > Scott Cable wrote: > > > > > So to answer Gavin's question, yes, there are > > plenty > > > of low wing aircraft with the dihedral starting at > > the > > > center. There are far and above many more > > examples of > > > low wing aircraft where the dihedral starts outbd > > of > > > the center, reasons for which are stated above. > > > > I don't have time to find the original question > > (this message is not a RE), > > but a lot of people might think that you're saying > > not to bend the spars at > > all, when I believe what you are saying is not to > > bend them from the > > centerline of the aircraft going outwards, but > > instead start bending them > > right after they exit the fuselage, which is the way > > I've advocated doing > > it. If you do it "my" way, all of these concerns > > are mininized into > > insignificance. And where I've recommended doing > > this, we'd be using the > > AS5048 at the root, which is something like 20% > > stronger than stock spar if > > the same spar cap dimensions are used... > > > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > > N56ML at hiwaay.net > > see KR2S project N56ML at > > http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > see KRnet list details at > http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > > ===== > Scott Cable > KR-2S # 735 > Linden, MI > s2cab...@yahoo.com > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > >
