Ron Smith wrote: > Let's see wood kit is 700 bucks. Say you save 300 bucks. Is three > hundred bucks worth carrying around that extra 10 lbs for the life of > the aircraft? > > I don't think so. My humble opinion again.
This is interesting. The boat, not counting skin, firewall, etc., is about 1500 inches of 5/8" sticks. That's .5425 cubic feet. Spruce would weigh about 15.2 pounds, fir about 16.8 pounds. Mine, with foam/glass skin and a fir skeleton should be around 32 pounds. That's actually lighter than an ultralight I designed a couple of years ago (37.4 pounds, based solely on computer models, I never built it). Now if I can make that P51 tail work I'll be happy ;) -- Steve N205FT mystic...@swbell.net He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in.
