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Old 01-23-2010 | 10:46 AM
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shootnstarz
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Default RE: Scratch Built Twin

These nacelles are made from 1/8 light ply with lots of triangle strips for rounding, everything epoxied together. They are attached via 1/4" hard balsa shaped with the wing saddle templete so they would fit over the sheeted wing and act as cleats. There is reinforcement between the two ribs and the nacelles were epoxied to the wings. Dave Brown engine mounts attached to 1/4" birch firewalls were placed so that no balance weight was needed. You can do this on a non-scale plane but scale ones have to go where they go. I of course coated everything in the nacelles with West epoxy.

On any future planes like this I will design the nacelles different, so they sit lower. Of course it's too windy today to fly it so the flight report will have to wait.

Rick