Steve Jacobs wrote: >Making it one piece must > surely contribute to the rigidity and torsional strength
Yes, but do you need more than is necessary? If that's a compromise, I'll choose better accessibility for inspection instead. > I cannot see any pics on your site that show how you handled > the roll over bar. There are two roll bars. The aft deck one is basically pinned, and then held in place vertically with the piano hinges, and the other roll bar is built into the canopy frame, which overhangs and helps retain the aft deck as well. This overhanging lip also directs any airflow that escapes the canopy in a direction parallel to the skin, for less drag. The lip also keeps the rain out. >it bothers me that you > may not have enough leverage for the braking action. I forget exactly where I got the geometry, but it's a fairly common one. If it works for everybody else, it ought to work for me. It certainly can't be worse than heel brakes, which simple push directly in on the shaft of the brake cylinder. I'm not worried about it. If it doesn't work well, it's easy enough to fix, since I have full access to the rudder pedals. >The tail feathers look a bit bigger than stock? 6" longer on each end, with elevator area retained same as stock by altering chord length. This might be a good time to point out that just about everything on my plane is untested, unproven, and subject to change as I get smarter. Plagiarize at your own risk! Still connecting wires... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
