In the continuing chapters of my composites endeavours, I'm starting part three.
To begin, I owe a friend a stab and tail for his plane. He helped tremendously with the fuse plug construction. Obviously, the parts will be composite. The goal on this one is to reduce the weight even further. 3rd time's a charm on the wing, right?
For this layup, We have decided to use a 60lb density foam as the wing skins rather than 1/16" contest balsa. Bob Mellen at flyingfoam.com cnc cut some ~3/32" foam sheets out of blue 60lb foam. These will be used on the next stab as an experiment. If it works, we'll then move towards using it on a wing.
I doubt that I will have much progress in the next few weeks as I am going to NY on vacation Aug 16-24. But, I will chronicle things as have been done in the past. Stay tuned.
Michael