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Old 09-12-2010 | 01:39 PM
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Default RE: Side veiw of a Jekyll?

Thanks Scot, I may take you up on that. Do you have any CAD files of Ed's Taurus? I started this building an updated version of the Pacer, then scaled down an Integral for a Norvel 74 (which flys fantastic) Then figured might as well represent most of the pattern generations so I started building the Jekyll, a Kaos will follow, but it wouldn't be complete without the Taurus, right? I had considered a Tippo or Currare, but I just can't get all that worked up to fight the linkage needed for the anhedral stab in 1/2A size.

Speaking of the Kaos, I'm almost finished scaling the 60 size down to a 25. I couldn't find a decent 25 plan, not sure anyone did one, so I just went from the 60 in CAD. Went pretty smooth until I got to the ribs. They scale fine, but 20 ribs on a 25 size plane seemed way overkill. But when you drop it to 16, the ribs don't scale down and still line up with the spar. So I had to redraw all the ribs. But almost done with that too. The older designs just fly too nice to let them go away. They didn't have computer radios so they had to design planes with little coupling that just flew well by themselves.

Bill