Wow, Brian. . .you really have some impressive stuff in those pictures.
Thanks for passing it on to the guys. Hope it inspires some to do some
building!
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From: Brian Courtice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:31 PM
Subject:
The next project I do is going to be a wingeron. I've been infatuated
with wingerons ever since Harley published the Orca way back when.
I plan to push my own buildings skills envelope on this one, because I
will be giving vacuum bagging a try for the first time.
The plane isn't even started
I used the typical euro, top actuated, bottom hinged system for the
flaps. It kept everything inside and a smooth wing bottom, but Gordy's
right it is a bit squishy as a system. I tried to stiffen it up with
4-40 threaded rod, soldered to heavy links. It's the nature of the
geometry I guess.
I
At 07:58 AM 9/4/2003 -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
He simply gave it up and pulled out with as sharp a radius corner
as I've seen anyone try. Nothing. No loud boom, no explosion,
the plane simply pulled out, rolled inverted and then Harley lost the
remaining altitude inverted, rolled back upright
Says Bill:
Alas, there are lots of folks out there who simply don't want to bother with
accumulating the equipment or take the time to develop the skills to make a high
quality, bagged
wing.
That's me! This genie looks like a very nice plane and I find the in-the-wing servo
setup really
. Now if someone who had the moxy and equipment and was willing to
offer a set of Genie wings I gotta believe there is a market out there.
I would be interested in a good set of wings like this myself.
I have the equipment, but don't have the time..
I would probably end up building a Mantis
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