Hey Guys, I could be all wet here but I would think that there is a huge why not. A major part of the wings ridgedness and overall strength is from bonding the fiberglass cloth to the wing spars and forming a true composit structure. I do not see how you would acheive this with a aluminum skin. I do see the chance that it would work with plywood skin bonded to the ribs and spars.Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA
Bob, Sure, why not?� Form your ribs, slide them onto the spars and rivet the skins onto the ribs. Ron ________________________________ From: Robert Boyd <iflyexp at gmail.com> To: KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 8:13 AM Subject: Re: KR> WING SKIN Bill I look forward to hearing replies. I am considering the weight difference of possibly using aluminum for ribs and skins? Couldn't someone make one piece ribs that would slide onto the spars then rivet sheet skins onto them? Bob Frazeysburg Ohio On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:03 AM, ol' weirdo <wmiweir at gmail.com> wrote: > From a fringer. > > Has anyone skinned the wing of his KR with aluminum sheet glued to the foam > the way titan build their wings? > > Bill Weir > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options ____________________________________________________________ How to Stay Asleep All Night Try this one weird trick to put your sleep troubles to rest. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/531620c85b1a820c82b3fst03duc