RE: Mr Palmer's Smoothie 1952
still working on the plans and have most of what is readable re-inked. the wing tip notes are difficult to read. does anyone know if the front of the wing should have sheeting back to the spars? the drawings seem to indicate that there might be some hard to make out and i belive it should be both top and bottom also hard to judge from rib drawings. progressing along to templating i have found some additional problems with the rib drawings not matching length shown on the wing plan. the overall span of the wing measures about 53 3/4" not 51 as noted i think the wing plan might be from the thunderbird and in the photo posted of that kit it is listed as 54". the plans say that they were redrawn july of 92 by Tom Dixon. i have recently orderd smoothie plans from Bill Baxters plan service and will compare the two and decide which set to use or draw strengths from both. this past yeae i have also scrstch built a pair of s-1 ringmasters and a flying fool biplane. have yet to fly any of them. thanks for the input everyone!
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