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I have taken the plans from a sig astro hog & enlarged them 12% giving me a wingspan of 80 in. The plans show a dihedral of about 2in. on the tips. I was wondering if anyone thinks a flat wing in one piece without dihedral would work & how would it handle. I plan to run a gas engine instead of glow.
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RE: sig hog
Thanks Walt, was going to email you about the set of plans. Got the plans from a member of our club. I got so many different answers from members that I thought I would check with rcuniverse. I thought about building it without dihedral for simplicity but it would look better with it plus I thought it would fly better also. Will keep you abrest of my plans..
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RE: sig hog
Walt, looking at the dihedral angle on page 10 & placing a block of wood under rib 5w it would bring the height to 3-1/8th. I can always make the angle gauge from page 6 less. That would give me less dihedral.
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RE: sig hog
I forgot about you scaling it up --what was it 12 percent? ---- I'd go with one half the resultant angle. The Hog is a great flying, confidence building airplane, but it's never going to be a hot-dog or a 3Der. Enjoy it for what it is. Surprisingly, I learned knife edge with mine.
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RE: sig hog
The plan was enlarged to 12%. I found a blueprint shop in town that charges me $2.50 a sheet. The only problem is that he has to run it thru 2 times since his printer isn't wide enough. But he overlaps each set so I can line it up. There are some changes to be made but the plane will look like the hog anyway. I have a 46 size stick that I fly plus a member gave me a 46 size UCANDO that I 3D with plus the stick pict. I sent you The biggest thing I have is a 1/4 scale Sig Cub withc a clipped wing with a 33cc a gas engine. It is up for sale on RCU.