STEVEB

I am building a Bridi Sun Fli 4 as re-kitted by Bluejay. All was proceeding well until I did a "dumb thumb" move by inducing a warp in the right wing panel. Alas, the kit is not in the current inventory as offered by Bluejay. Bluejay was contacted but no help was offered through either a purchase of an entire kit or wing rib templates.

Anybody have a set of plans depicting individual rib patterns or know of a source where I can buy a set of rib templates? My expirience in building and flying the Sun Fli 5 tells me the 4 should be just as nice.


Steve Barnett
Arnold, MD

w8ye

My Feedback: (16)

A lot of Joe Bridi's plane designs had inter relationships and shared many design features

The ribs might possibly be used on another of his designs

That being said. most kit or scratch building people would have little problem making a new wing from the old one's dimensions including copying the wings

rainedave

My Feedback: (1)

Steve, right click on the attachment, click on "save link as" and rename it to sunfli-iv.pdf

Make sure you get rid of the .txt and replace it with .pdf

The plans are full size at 54" x 36"

David

jjscott

David: How do you clean up and save the plans the way you do? Do you have some way to scan the full-size plans and save them as PDF? I've tried to work from the full-size plans with my 35mm digital camera, but I always seem to get some distortion no matter where I position the camera. Plus, I only have the free adobe reader, which does not allow you to do anything with the files.

Jim

STEVEB

w8ye,

have already made templates of w1 and w10, stacked the appropriate number of rib blanks to employ the stack sanding method. I have sanded one half of the stack and now ready to start the other half. I was looking for a template or guide to ensure I was doing the task accurately. I would like to think I'd end up with some rather interesting flying characteristics using two differerent airfoils on the same mono-winged aircraft. Although a neat experiment, I would rather spend my time flying then trying to trim a wierd airplane.

However, thanks for taking the time to read and respond to my basic question.

Steve Barnett

STEVEB

David,

Thank you Sir. The download came through fine.

Steve Barnett