Wesley Scott wrote: > The vertical shear spar loads will not drop to zero inside the > fuselage, unless the seats are mounted to the longerons instead of to > the spar as they normally are. The horizontal shear loads caused by > the bending moments remain constant (not zero) inside the fuselage if > there is no vertical load applied to the spar inside the fuselage.
Guess I didn't mention I'm mounting the seat supports to the floor and sides of the fuselage ;) Half the cockpit (seat, armrests, headrest) is this foam thing. I'll put some pics somewhere when the plans show up and I've had time to build more than a mockup. I was reminded of something useful today. Waterjets can cut any solid, including carbon, G2 and FR4 fiberglass, and plyfoam :) This will greatly simplify my life. I can just lay up a full sheet of foam/carbon, build a CAD file, and in 10 minutes have a jigsaw puzzle-like pile of stuff that turns into a seat assembly. Ain't technology great? :) -- Steve N205FT [email protected] He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in.
