Yep,
I am thinking on the lines of the cabin ace myself and I have noticed the
wing attach. If anyone knows of a reported failure I'd sure like to know
about it. May have to see if I can get ahold of the old Mechanix Illustrated
article of Paul's as well. I think I'd be an idiot to pay for plans from a
place in Georgia or whomever, when they are public record in any library
since being published.
I imagine they have made improvements, but it comes to a point when you
are overkilling something and just adding weight..so I am trying to see
where that fine line ends and starts I guess you could say.

Patrick

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"W P Dixon"
:

Check them out that is, heck my mind was thinking one thing and
fingers typing another...OK finger! I use the Hunt and Peck typing
system! I would like to build it as original, any details on those
problems?

OK, if you're looing at original 30s drawings, the worst fault is the
actualy spar attachment point. I don't have the drawings in fromt of me,
but the fitting welded to the fuse to capture the spar is just a strap
bent
around the spar and on the vertical and a single bolt drilled through that
fitting verticaly through the spar. That's the cabin model. The open
cockpit model has just a strap welded to the top of the cabane with the
same bolt inserted vertically through the spar to a strap that binds the
two spars together. Not the best setup, though they did make a lot of
those
airplanes and as far as I know it never fell into disrepute.
On the Paul Poberezny revamp for the revived Mechanich Illustrated
airplane
in the '50s, that was the major mod he did to the airplane. There are
substantial fittings on each spar end which transmit the load into the
drag
anti drag wires and it's a hinge type mating to the cabane struts. This is
the way to go. The rest of the airplane is fairly OK and if you just build
it using standard practices it should be fine. But if you're going two
place, the junior has outrigger gear anyway!
It's a great little airplane, though. I've got a cabin ace on one of the
multitude of backbuners in my head..

Someday, maybe, if I get this one on the front burner finished before I
pop
my clogs.



Bertie