ORIGINAL: combatpigg
Test the heat setting on scrap, the temp is perfect if you leave thousands of hairs on the cut....
bubbles and pits, big wide kerf, no good.
Wipe the wire before or after each cut with a paper towel.
''Dress the wire'' with a smooth round tool to make sure it is perfectly smooth.
You aren't making a [low aspect/short span] delta for combat, are you?
The highly swept leading edge will keep scores down....
I'm trying to copy the wings I see on a number of SSC combat planes.
Battle axe, avenger...
measurements I made by scaling a web photo up to full size to estimate the wing sizes.
1/2 a wing will be 30" long. 10" at the root and 6" at the tip. for a total 60" wingspan.
seems big for an OS .15LA but thats what they are running on those planes..
from the look of those wings the tip is centered on the root so the LE sweeps back and the TE sweeps forward...
Would the low aspect/short span delta you describe be like a jet wing? ( highly swept back LE, short wing and a straight TE ???)
Kinda ignorant on the wing terms.... but learnin..
thanks for the tips..
Steve