Darren Compton wrote: > My understanding about widening the fuselage is that you leave the bottom > the same width and widen the top of the fuselage only. This in turn creates > the "banana boat" effect. By doing it this way, you have no real loss in > wing area.
No, the "banana boat" is what you get building by the plans, whether you widen the plane or not. When you bend the top more than the bottom, that's what you get. So unless you make the sides vertical, you're going to have a banana boat. No big deal though, once you're past installing the fuselage member gussets, as it practically makes no differnce in the construction of the rest of the plane, since the top decks and canopy frame are constructed off of the fuselage. Wing area calculations include the bottom of the plane where the wing would have been, so there's no need to increase spar length if you widen the fuselage a little. You can lengthen the center spars if you want to, but consider trailering the plane, getting it out of your garage, etc. Where you can get into trouble is SHORTENING the center spars, because now the wing attach fittings are picking up a higher load, and the WAF to wood connection is the weak link of the assembly. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
