Help with OMEI wing
01-04-2007 | 04:05 PM
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Help with OMEI wing
Hello Everyone,
My name is George calling from North East England. First post everthing is new need some advice on reinforcing the wing on myt OMEI Glider. Trying to avoid adding glass fibre. Is it possible to add a second wing joiner in place of the small metal locating stud. Maybe using Carbon Fibre tube? Any suggestions with this?
Many Thanks and look forward to hearing from you all.
George
My name is George calling from North East England. First post everthing is new need some advice on reinforcing the wing on myt OMEI Glider. Trying to avoid adding glass fibre. Is it possible to add a second wing joiner in place of the small metal locating stud. Maybe using Carbon Fibre tube? Any suggestions with this?
Many Thanks and look forward to hearing from you all.
George
01-07-2007 | 01:39 PM
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RE: Help with OMEI wing
Hi
Thanks for the reply. The model I am building (or modifying) is a OMEI 2000 EP. I have gone down the carbon fibre route, replacing the metal wing joiner and adding a servo box to servo box, 5ml carbon fibre tube. Hopefully this will strengthen up the wing enough for mild aerobatics. Now planning to add a rudder - do you know if the OMEI will survive a "spin"? or maybe just a "stall turn"?
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George
Thanks for the reply. The model I am building (or modifying) is a OMEI 2000 EP. I have gone down the carbon fibre route, replacing the metal wing joiner and adding a servo box to servo box, 5ml carbon fibre tube. Hopefully this will strengthen up the wing enough for mild aerobatics. Now planning to add a rudder - do you know if the OMEI will survive a "spin"? or maybe just a "stall turn"?
Regards
George
01-08-2007 | 05:55 AM
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RE: Help with OMEI wing
Hiya.
I've never seen this model before.........but did a websearch.
The carbon joiner should be ok, but the wings still might flex a little, under load.
It should be fine for most mild aerobatics, but it might be worth considering putting two extra wing bolts towards the L/E, in the D-box.
I would also make sure the that the flight battery is very secure, before attempting "aeros", as any weight shift could be critical.....if not fatal !!.
Some model won't spin, no matter how much you provoke them.........so until you try, you won't know. Make sure you have plenty of recovery height, just in case she gets out of shape.
Stall turns should be fine though....
I hope that helps......
I've never seen this model before.........but did a websearch.
The carbon joiner should be ok, but the wings still might flex a little, under load.
It should be fine for most mild aerobatics, but it might be worth considering putting two extra wing bolts towards the L/E, in the D-box.
I would also make sure the that the flight battery is very secure, before attempting "aeros", as any weight shift could be critical.....if not fatal !!.
Some model won't spin, no matter how much you provoke them.........so until you try, you won't know. Make sure you have plenty of recovery height, just in case she gets out of shape.
Stall turns should be fine though....
I hope that helps......
01-08-2007 | 06:07 AM
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RE: Help with OMEI wing
The Omei's wing is pretty flexible and really benefits from fiberglass reinforcement. Mine has the fiberglass tape on the top and bottom center sections of the wing and it handles loops, rolls, and speed passes pretty well. I can get it to spin on aileron and elevator alone, which results in a pretty fast descent rate, so if it can handle that then I'm sure it can handle a spin with rudder input. Good luck with your Omei, they are a great flying sport sailplane.
