I would consider that insignificant, a bit unsightly, but should have little affect. However, please note that my closest encounter with being an aeronautical engineer was the night that I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for Flying has begun. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC -------Original Message------- From: bobby burington List-Post: [email protected] Date: 04/23/07 01:45:34 To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> wing airfoil shape Sory about that, this is my first time web building, but here is another link to the pictures and I think this one will work. I hope. http://bobskr.white.prohosting.com/wing.htm thanks Bob Darren Crompton <[email protected]> wrote: The link takes me to the freeprohosting page and not to your photo. On 4/23/07, bobby burington wrote: > > Hello Mark, > > thanks for the input , > > I have posted some pictures of the wing. its kind of hard to see how bad > the distortion is from the pictures but I tried. > the wing already has a thin skin of fiberglass over it so if I do as you > suggest I will have to sand down to the spar, then glue in a new piece of > wood over the spar cap then re-glass the wing skin. ?. Then will it hurt to > make the new Spar cap a little wider so the old skn will lay over it when > re-glasing ?. > > Thanks > Robert > > bobby burington wrote: > > > I have discovered a small problem with one of the wings on this plane > > project I have sort of inherited , the rear spar is about 3/16 shy of > what > > is called for in the plans and the airfoil is slightly misshapen because > > of this. > > If you are saying that the spar is not tall enough, you need to use T-88 > or > some other suitable epoxy to glue some more wood on top of the spars, > rather > than use foam to make up the difference to get to the airfoil profile. The > skin's connection to the rest of the plane is done through the spar cap, > and > foam cannot support the load (it is structurally "useless"). --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. _______________________________________ 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
