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Old 01-18-2021 | 07:46 PM
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I think your calculations may be a bit high. For reference the last two giant scale airplanes that I owned with built up wings a Cap 232 97" had spruce spars of 3/8" square and a Reed Falcon ( Pitts Special type ) 72" has spruce 3/8"X1/4". Both used 3/32 vertical grain balsa for shear webbing. For some added strength you could also add trailing edge spars with shear webbing.