MarkSorry I got you wrong as the author. Maybe your name was somewhere in the
post and I thought you had said it. Strega is a highly modified P-51 pylon
racer, Reno air race type.So based on what you and Larry have done, it looks
like I'm doing wing root fillets.Thanks, Pete
> To: krnet at list.krnet.org
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 09:39:38 -0500
> Subject: Re: KR> Fuselage to wing fairings?
> From: krnet at list.krnet.org
> CC: ml at n56ml.com
>
> Pete Klapp wrote:
>
> >> I recently read that Mark Langford noted that Strega does not have
> >> large radius fillets. You'd think they would have them as they are
> >> trying tosqueeze every mph that they can from that airframe
>
> I don't remember saying that about any airplane, and am not sure what a
> Strega is (Google says "italian for witch" and an Italian liquor).
>
> I put a fairly large fillet radius between wing and fuselage, using a 3"
> diameter cardboard tube with some 36 grit floor sander adhesive belt
> wrapped around it. 4" PVC pipe works fine too. It knocked that job out
> rather quickly, although glassing any inside radius is a bit of a pain
> in the butt. See http://www.n56ml.com/fillets.html for excruciating
> details on how I did my wing root fillets. Despite fretting over it for
> years, the actual job went pretty quickly once I set my mind to it...
>
> Mark Langford
> ML at N56ML.com
> http://www.n56ml.com
>
>
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