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Old 12-28-2007 | 05:12 PM
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Default Scratch bilding a twin. need info.

Hi there.

I have been thinking of scratch building a twin. I have a twinstar that I have been flying for some time now. The fuse got destroyed so I made a new one and did some mods to it. Took off the 25s and put on some 40 Ervins and had a ball. Love the plane.

What I am getting at is I was going to take the wing of the twinstar and blow it up to about 80” wing and go from there. But when I did that I found out that the airfoil is the same as a Robin hood 80” wing that I just happen to have. The more I looked in to it the more I liked what I was seeing. Now the twinstar is a great flying plane. And if I make this plane the same it seems that it should fly about the same. I hope.

Now the Twinstar has about 4 degrees of left thrust on the left engine and 5 degrees of right on the right engine. On this new one that I want to make should I do the same thing to it? I guess I should have said that I hope to put two 25cc weed eater conversation on it. (That is just the plan for now. That just mite change.) I plan on using gas so I can just run one tank in the fuse and not have to mess with tanks in the wings.
The wing is semisymmetrical and I have no idea on what the incidents should be. I have seen a lot of post on here about seting the engines at 0.0 so I thought I would just ask and get all info I can before I start cutting in to this wing. I will put pics up as I go. That is when I know what I am doing before I go. Lol

I am still in the planning part of this and all info or help would be nice

Paul