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Old 12-29-2005 | 11:13 PM
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Default RE: New CAD Kaos project under way.

Thanks Ed. I've learned a thing or two about how less is more with this plane. I particularly like the laminated LE technique and the way the sheeting keys into it.

It's pretty much hardware time now. The only wood stuff left to do is install the wing dowels, and then sheet the bottom of the fuse and wing after the pushrods and servo mounts are in. I have two medium-size servos that I think I'll mount just behing the LG trunnions instead of doing a single servo/torquerod setup. With the wing bolt blocks in the way there wouldn't be a lot of room for that anyway.

I made a mistake in building the wing. I set up the jig so that the rib center lines were all the same height off the board when I should have made the top spar the referrence line. This is because the top of the wing is flat and the bottom taper creates the dihedral. It only took about 1/64" of angle sanding to the wing roots to fix this. I've never built a wing with this type of taper/dihedral before, so I didn't know to plan this.

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