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Old 04-19-2009 | 06:51 AM
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Default RE: The Swee' Pea is next

Dave,

I'm lucky to have a big work area. I designed my house and I designed a 37'x20' room with a 10' ceiling in it upstairs. And I negotiated with the contractor for my Dad to be able to work onsite and he added a 23'x13'x8' room as well. I'll shoot some pictures. It takes a lot of room to do composite wings without having to shuffle stuff around. That's one of the reasons why I recommend that people start out with small pieces like V-tails before they graduate to wings.

Templates are essential to making composite parts and enjoying the process. Just like building a regular plane, you need plans. I make templates for every part that is repeatable. Here are the templates for:

1) the wing skins
2) the wing cloth
3) the wing peel-ply and breather
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