ORIGINAL: ec121
Hat's off the the posters. I can't believe that no one took the bait in my post about starting a 33% on a bench. Must be a pretty mannerly bunch of folks. Or MAYBE they have club members who actually do it. Usually someone would call me a moron and flame me for doing it. It would take some kind of bench and cojones to really do it.
I have hada fewrequests to scale up my bench plans to hold really large planes. After some feedback from some of the club members, I did make the tail piece 6" longer from the original design and made the wing support uprights wider to accommodate wide gear planes and provide more prop clearance. Right now I think the bench is large enough as is and should not be made any larger.It will hold something like a 15 lb,82" Wingspan, Giant Super Sportsterwith no problem.Planes larger than that are usually put on the ground.
I think there is a federal law that each club has to havea certain percentage ofjerks. Sometimes they can be trained to play well with others, if not, maybe they can beforced to go to a club that needs to meet their federalquota.