flyinryan2

I'm building a push pull airplane and I need to modify the wing and put some booms on it to build the tail. I need some Balsa or Foam that are the size listed in the subject. I'm having a hard time finding such things. Any Ideas

Thanks

Ryan

Rcpilot

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Google to the rescue.

Searched for Balsa Blocks and came up with this stuff:

http://www.balsasupply.com/balsablocks.php

http://www.dbalsa.com/balsa.htm#6

http://www.specializedbalsa.com/balsa_blocks.php

http://skyhooks.ca/bablock.htm

Newc

Faced with this sort of situation my normal procedure would be to use 3 pieces of 1x3x36 if they are available, or similar pieces to get to the size wanted, and CyA them together.

jmb52760

Ryan,

I hope you are not building the booms from solid balsa. That would be too much weight in just the wrong place. Might I suggest that you build them like a fuselage - frames, longerons, and skin. Or pehaps a foam core with a skin material like fiberglass or balsa.

Disregard if I have misinterpreted your post.

flyinryan2

No, you didn't misinterprete. Thats what I was planning. I guess I thought the weight would be right, but now you have me thinking. I would prefer to use foam and skin it. I thought balsa would be light enough but I quess I should check into a little more.

thanks for the input

Ryan