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RE: ZIROLI P-61 BLACK WIDOW BUILD
Kram,
Thanks for the picture, comments and info.
You're probably right on the nose but for the weight of one sheet of 3/32" thick light balsa, if it saves me 'I wish I would of', then I'll be happy. I don't expect it to save any bad landings: my main concern is that I shouldn't have to worry about, after I land, will the nose hold up if the grass is rough or if I go off the end of the runway. That's the only reason for putting in the shear webbing.
Yep, it's nice to have a 'too heavy nose' plane as it's so easy to fix (I prefer a little nose heavy anyway on my warbirds: especially on maidens).
With a couple of big, heavy G-62's, that might happen!
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Center wing (cont)
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It took awhile just to put in the three bottom spruce spars: lots of epoxy from previous work dripped on those areas and I had to sand it out (no time to be neat when you're trying to set up a couple dozen items and check all the alignments before the epoxy dries!).
That's about it for today: got some other 'stuff' to do.
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