typical sailplane fuselage weights

[Brad[_2_]]

I am curious if any one knows what just the fuselage weighs for their
single seat sailplane.

Cheers,
Brad

[Lars Peder Hansen]

123,2 Kg for my DG-600/18

Happy Soaring
Lars Peder
Denmark



"Brad" > wrote in message
...
>I am curious if any one knows what just the fuselage weighs for their
> single seat sailplane.
>
> Cheers,
> Brad

[Gavin Short[_2_]]

At 16:30 03 July 2008, Brad wrote:
>I am curious if any one knows what just the fuselage weighs for their
>single seat sailplane.
>
>Cheers,
>Brad
>

102.0Kg for my Std Cirrus.

Why the question?


Gavin
Std Cirrus, CNN now G-SCNN, #173
LSV Viersen, Keiheuvel, Belgium

[Brad[_2_]]

> Why the question?
>
> Gavin

Thanks for the replies so far.

I am building my HP-24 fuselage and just wanted to get a ballpark feel
for what a typical single seat fuselage might weigh.

Cheers,
Brad

[noel.wade]

> I am building my HP-24 fuselage and just wanted to get a ballpark feel
> for what a typical single seat fuselage might weigh.
>
> Cheers,
> Brad

Another way to look at this would be to work backwards - you know most
modern 15m ships have wings that weight about 150 lbs apiece (give or
take a bit). And you also know that most modern sailplanes weigh
somewhere around 530 - 580 lbs empty (let's call it 550 as a rough
average).

150 * 2 wings = 300 lbs.
550 - 300 = 250 lbs for the fuselage and tail (and all the bits inside
the fuse like landing gear, control-rods, instruments, etc).

Take care,

--Noel

[Brad[_2_]]

I also realized my Thomas book has a weight column for the fuselage/
vert fin, and a column for the horiz tail, as well as wings. I see
that I am on target to produce a fuselage that will weigh well under
200 lbs. The carbon shell weighed in around 65 pounds, and with all
the internal bits and structure, it is now up to 105 pounds.

Brad