If you want to look at aluminum bonding one of the best examples is
the Grumman Yankee.
For those of you that do not remember or have never seen that
aircraft it was built on Honeycomb construction and bonded aluminum skin. I
tend to agree though that if one is looking to use different materials
other than what was designed for use in the aircraft one should probably
consider a different design. I do confess thinking about building a KR 1
and using marine grade plywood for skinning the wings but again it would
make it a completely different design parameter. I am sure that skinning
the wings in plywood correctly would produce a strong structure and cause
no real problems but again you are no longer dealing with the design as it
was intended to be and therefore you should be very very careful at best.
Just my two cents worth.
Doran
N186RC
