You could follow the Apogee carving instructions but with maple, use a fishing pole butt for the tailboom, and have a great sloper. If you get a drawknife and a good block plane, it might not even be difficult.
A guy in our club has (or used to have) a router jig which made quick work of making straight 8" X 2 meter wings with E205. Some of his gliders had almost solid balsa ahead of the spar. Maynard Hill's electrostatic autopilot trick substituted for dihedral, though I seem to recall he could fly them pretty well without it. Hard to make a high aspect ratio work with lead, unless it has long rigid toys inside. Use tungsten. (now THERE'S an easy material to work with...) I wish I remembered (or maybe just knew in the first place)what "Judicium Procurator" means. And "Recuperatio" is a new addition isn't it? Lincoln Ross Tom H. Nagel wrote: >Dear Gordy: > Solid lead would be easier to work with. Softer, and no >splinters. = >Sort of a lead sled. > I thought I had a source lined up for surplus Chinese >lead ingots, = >but it turns out they were contaminated with toys. >Tom H. Nagel >Judicium Procurator >Recuperatio=20 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
