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Old 08-30-2007 | 01:13 PM
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Default RE: Anyone for BIPE cutting?

A very practicle solution.
Lots of full size aircraft (fixed and rotary wings) are made that way.
Read quite a few articles in various mags on this.
Just make sure the break is designed properly.
Usually I saw that the basic fuse, having a girder construction, has the four main longerons terminating at the break with special fittings that take up tension and compression loads, with some local strengthening to allow the concentrated load to be absorbed well by the rest of each longeron.