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Old 04-22-2009 | 09:42 AM
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ElectRick
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Default RE: Tiporare questions

When I built my Tipo I put the aileron servos outboard in the wings. If you'd done that, you'd have a lot more room for the flap and retract servos. It's too late now though.

It's worth mentioning that I swam upstream with a number of design changes on my Tipo besides outboard servos. I also mounted my engine inverted, so it would be completely enclosed in the nose (except for the top of the cylinder head). I think I may have deepened the area at the fuse bottom between the nose and wing saddle to better accommodate the tuned pipe and nose retract. I made this piece into a removable hatch cover for access to the retract and exhaust header area. I built two half fairings onto the bottom of the wing to partially hide the tuned pipe, which rests in a shallow rounded depression in the wing center section (well glassed).

The effect looks good, and it hides most of the pipe when looking from the side. I have wrung out the plane to test the wing,with no folded wings yet. I also increased the wing sweep to a point where the TE is a straight line, and added just a bit to the anhedral from the stab to compensate for the effective increase in dihedral. This was done strictly for aesthetic reasons, and seems to have had little or no adverse effect on flight characteristics.

If anyone wants to see the mods, I'll have to dig the plane out of my spare room. It hasn't flown in years.

Rick