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Forum: Aerodynamics

02-03-2007, 04:29 PM

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Making control surfaces?

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Posted By da Rock

RE: Making control surfaces?

BTW, one of the guys decided before we'd actually done this lashup deal, that the paper wasn't going to be strong enough. So the night before, he spray painted some paper to use after creasing it.
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Forum: Aerodynamics

02-02-2007, 06:07 PM

Replies: 10

Making control surfaces?

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Posted By da Rock

RE: Making control surfaces?

If you wonder about the results you'd get from increasing the chord, it takes about 5 minutes to tape the stiff paper around the control surfaces. The rudder takes less. And you can fly the sucker...

Forum: Aerodynamics

02-02-2007, 09:26 AM

Replies: 10

Making control surfaces?

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Posted By da Rock

RE: Making control surfaces?

Oh yeah......

And a couple of times, we used a slightly porous paper and glued it instead of taping. And then painted it with fuelproof dope. It then became basically a new, perfectly adequate...

Forum: Aerodynamics

02-02-2007, 09:20 AM

Replies: 10

Making control surfaces?

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Posted By da Rock

RE: Making control surfaces?

Oh yeah.........

What made the stuff strong enough was that we basically folded it at the TE of it, and taped it to both the top and bottom of the surface. It quite elegantly formed the...

Forum: Aerodynamics

02-02-2007, 09:15 AM

Replies: 10

Making control surfaces?

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Posted By da Rock

RE: Making control surfaces?

We used to cut stiff paper, very stiff paper, and tape it to the control surface we were testing. It worked like gangbusters for the tests. It worked for 125mph CL combat stabilators on models...

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