ORIGINAL: cmoulder
Nice work. And that's a lot of work!
I don't mean to make more work for you, but there is a [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=6730856]not-insignificant design flaw[/link] with the wings that you uberkonstruktors might want to consider. Definitely something to think about when doing crazy-hard snaps or parachutes or blenders.
Bob,
Uberkonstruktors??? [sm=50_50.gif]Even Goggle could not help me with this one.
I am taking a guess that you are referring to the shear webbing for the “spar” - grain running with the spar as opposed to vertical to the spar. I read that post quite a while back and find it somewhat concerning. The good news is that I have not read of people exploding the wings on this thing.
Also I noticed mine is built a little different. [sm=devious.gif]The wing tube cardboard (the one in the wing of course) splits the shear web. I’ll try to get a picture later. I’ll throw in a sketch here to show what I mean. As I remember, Rich’s wings were like your pictures-the shear web glued behind the wing tube.
I surely do not know if this is better or worse. Depends on how they have that tube glued in to the wings that have the shear web glued behind the tube. It is what it is…
I believe you wrote before and I believe it whole heartedly…with all the power we are bolting to these Phoenix Extra’s….throttle management is a absolute necessity. I can see this thing exploding in mid air on that 160+mph run…..[sm=what_smile.gif] With a 90 2 stroke and the right prop I have no doubt it can be done.
Speaking of props, we have more experiments to do, but we are looking at using the APC 15X4 wide or 16X4 wide on our Super Tigre’s. I have done some test with the Wild Stik and the 16X4 version already with interesting results.