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Old 11-13-2010 | 08:56 PM
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Default RE: How do they do composites.


ORIGINAL: flyingtheoldones

do you guys think this layup would be good for a hollow wing as well?
Yes. A hollow wing is even easier than a fuse. Balsa sandwich skins with a liitle more glass or carbon in the high stress areas. Wings require just a couple ribs in key places to hold stuff in, like wing tube sockets.

The Science Channel did a very quick video review of BVM composite wing construction. A jet wing has much more structure and strength in it than we would need in a pattern wing but the elements of the overall process were well outlined in that review