>I'm building the new tail for my solar plane and I'm thinking I'll make a >Drela style carbon V mount for the vstab.
The original carbon V-mount was on the Daedalus HPA, on both the stab and the rudder: http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/Medium/EC88-0059-002.jpg http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/Large/EC88-0059-002.jpg (hi-res) http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/Medium/EC87-0014-8.jpg http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/Large/EC87-0014-8.jpg (hi res) Putting the rudder on a V-mount works fine, except striking the rudder on the ground may cause it to break. I suppose you could have the V-mounted rudder mostly above the boom, which would minimize the torques on the V-mount from a ground strike. But rudder airloads will torque the boom more. Then there's the agony of deciding whether to put the rudder on the right side or the left side of the boom... 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.
