ORIGINAL: UStik
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Maybe you can still use some Simla details. It was not possible to measure the clipped wing from the pictures, but Cees' method of building a model and comparing the pictures works. I clipped the wing tips of the virtual Simla by 3.5" and left the tip shape alone. Now it seems quite clear that the wingtips were smaller and had not that "sweep" or "rake" like the original tips. Makes it more likely that the rib frames were 3" wide, one was cut and the new tip blocks were made smaller/narrower.
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">UStik,</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Do you remember your post 1237 page 50:<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">>>Anyway, don't tell you knew all from the beginning>></span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">So again an example for that, double check the value of 34 inch of the span of the Simla stab, because all the facts have to fit.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">When Ed did enlarge his original contest Taurus ( Oldest Taurus on Earth!!) with 150 % to create his Simla, what would be the span of the stab?</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">Answer:</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">See picture 1, half span of the Wester Taurus (Copy of Ed’s Contest Taurus) is 28,8 cm</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">28,8 cm x 2 x 1,5 (150 %) = 86,4 cm </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">86,4 / 2,54 = 34,0 inch.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">Is that right? See picture 2</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">So.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">>>>>but Cees' method of building a model and comparing the pictures works.>>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">Proved, </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">To check this post and the dimensions of the stab.The stab is, uncovered and not sanded, visible on my drawing board in post 47 on 14/10/2008 of the thread: Redesign and Reconstruction of the Oldest Taurus on Earth. If you want I can enlarge that picture.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">Cees</span></div>