It depends on what kind of finish you want to do as it lends itself to how ever you want to cover it. Finished fabric covering is the lightest at 6 oz. per sq.yd with fiberglass sheeting coming in second or last depending on how well you do it to aluminum covering being the heaviest .025 2024T3 is about 2.75 lbs per sq.yd by my rough calculation. as the fuselage only has about 3 sq.yds of covering there is really not much difference in weight. Fiberglass is the easiest to tie wing roots and horizontal stabilizer into and I know of a Smythe Sidewinder that uses fiberglass skins because it was lighter than .025 aluminum skins and the aircraft is beautifully builtennis Mingear <dennisming...@yahoo.com> wrote: 36 pounds, without covering or paint. Sounds like it might be twice as heavy as a well finished wood fuse.
Am I close? Denny ... --- Don Chisholm wrote: > just to give an idea the Sonerai 2 S uses About an > equal amount of 3/4 inch > 5/8 inch .035 steel tube with GOP = Greed-Oppression-Power. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
