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06-20-2002 | 06:13 AM
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The Hangar-9 Solo is basically a text-book trainer design... the measurements are darned close to those of many, many very good trainers. You may be able to find either a wing or wing plan that's readily available for another similar trainer -- and if not, I have no doubt that you'd be able to find a plan for one that will fit your fuselage just about perfectly.
Your Solo wing should be 62" span and 11-1/2" chord, flat-bottomed airfoil with ailerons and a couple degrees of dihedral. Any flat-bottomed 4-channel trainer wing with about an 11 to 11-1/2" chord should fit your plane -- and as long as it's got about the same dihedral as the Solo, it will fly very much the same.
Some other planes from which you could try for wings and/or plans are the Tower Hobbies Tower Trainer 40, the Hobbico Superstar 40, or the Great Planes PT-40. Most of the manufacturers do sell plans for their kit planes (maybe not for ARFs, but usually yes for kits) -- and if the manufacturers don't come through, the PT-40 was originally published in RC Modeler and plans for it are still available from them.
Your Solo wing should be 62" span and 11-1/2" chord, flat-bottomed airfoil with ailerons and a couple degrees of dihedral. Any flat-bottomed 4-channel trainer wing with about an 11 to 11-1/2" chord should fit your plane -- and as long as it's got about the same dihedral as the Solo, it will fly very much the same.
Some other planes from which you could try for wings and/or plans are the Tower Hobbies Tower Trainer 40, the Hobbico Superstar 40, or the Great Planes PT-40. Most of the manufacturers do sell plans for their kit planes (maybe not for ARFs, but usually yes for kits) -- and if the manufacturers don't come through, the PT-40 was originally published in RC Modeler and plans for it are still available from them.
06-20-2002 | 03:07 PM
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Where can i go?
If you don't mind deviating from Balsa and Monocote, you might want to try a Debonair's Coroplast wing from http://www.spadtothebone.com
Very tough and very cheap. Measurements are darn close! Should work great!
Very tough and very cheap. Measurements are darn close! Should work great!
06-21-2002 | 07:23 AM
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Aaarrgh!! -- why didn't I think of that?
Tatoo's got a good point... I have a Deb wing that has flown on various things in its never ending search for a good piece of downspout... darned good wing, easy to do, and guaranteed to outlast your fuselage or we'll cheerfully refund the $4 it cost to build it (if you get ripped off for coroplast like I do... I know it can be done for less if you're a savy buyer!)
Tatoo's got a good point... I have a Deb wing that has flown on various things in its never ending search for a good piece of downspout... darned good wing, easy to do, and guaranteed to outlast your fuselage or we'll cheerfully refund the $4 it cost to build it (if you get ripped off for coroplast like I do... I know it can be done for less if you're a savy buyer!)
