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Old 01-03-2025 | 12:24 AM
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Default Density of building materials
Hi all,

I'm trying to design a plane in CAD.
To be able to control the mass budget I would like to assign the material densities to the different materials I'm using.
Ply 700 kg/m^3 - 44 lb/ft^3
Lite ply (pappel?) 406 kg/m^3 - 25 lb/ft^3
Balsa 206 kg/m^3 - 13 lb/ft^3

This is based on information I found on the web.

Are these realistic values that can be used to predict the fuselage's mass?

Thanks,

Leo
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