Hi Russ. 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.
Cheers Darren Crompton AUSTRALIA On 3/31/07, Russ Kendall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I'm widening the fuselage to 40". Which got me to thinking, I should > also lenthen the main spars to compensate for the for the loss in wing area. > Which got me to thinking about going even wider, say an extra 12" on each > side. Since I'm going with a Trigear setup, the Diehl main gear bolts behind > the front main spar, which loses me fuel tank area. The wider stub wing > span would give me more tank area. I'd also have more flap area in the stub > wing. > > What's do you think about longer main spars? I'll be using the > AS5048/45 airfoil which has a stronger spar. > Thanks for your input. > > Russ Kendall > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > Post photos, introductions, and For Sale items to > http://www.kr2forum.com/phpBB2/index.php > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
