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Old 06-27-2005 | 11:01 AM
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Default RE: "slasher" versus spad

Cool looking plane. What are the tip and root chords?

I noticed you don't have a mousse can installed. Do you guys normally not use cans?

How does it stand up to prop cuts? One of the things I like about foam is that I can (and have) taken prop cuts in the wing, including that go clear through the wing, and continued to fly the round. A little tape afterwards, and it's as good as new (as long as the prop doesn't hit the spar. Get the spar, and it's coming down). I've seen coro wings rip along the flutes when prop cut. Of course, if you have some tape or something acting as a rip-stop, that might fix that problem? I've seen foam wings explode from prop cuts because they were covered in a heat-shrink covering rather than tape or rip-stop.