Hello all, I have had my plans for a few weeks now and I am chewing on some ideas
that need to be addressed before I get started with the 88. I really like the idea Mike suggested on his comment page. Mikes thought was to incorporate the dihedral bend for the spars "inside" the fuselage. Find it here: http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kopinion.html#bent My thoughts are to do exactly that only not cut the caps into quarter inch strips, but to steam and bend them with a jig holding the proper angle until set. Do them both at the same time, sitting on top of each other, they would be exact complements. Once the vertical spreaders and shear ply was glued on it should be as strong as the strait spar ever was. That covers the front spar, the rear one is going to be a little more work. I will require a dihedral bend and one that sweeps it forward. My thought is to put the dihedral bend inside and make the bend forward just as it leaves the fuselage. Again top and bottom at the same time in the same jig one on top of the other. Talking to a few wood workers they seem to think the small angles would be a easy to do. They suggested I practice on some clear tighter grain pine to get a feel for the small spring back that will occur. Why? For very little extra work I will be able to extend the flap area / sand and cover the wing as one unit / it will look super!!! Now.... I need to keep the WAF's for transport. This means I need to come up with the airfoil template for those points along the spar. I am not sure how to produce it? Plus they will be slightly different on each side of the WAFs ..... "here I need some help". If you have an idea ... Light the way for me. I am using the new airfoil with taller spars AS5048 and a AS5045 at the tip. Not sure if I am going to use the extra length of 2s wing........ I need to think a bit more on that (comments welcome) I will be stretching the fuselage 11" longer than the 2s but it will be single place 30" at the shoulders. Long time ago (the third life time I think) I had a program that I paid a bunch of money for that would lay out a model aircraft wings and airfoils. I still have it but it is on floppy ( have none in this machine) and I think you could only unzip it 3 times. It would do full size airfoil templates. Maybe something like that would work here. You comments / criticisms (screams ignored) Gary
