"Jay" wrote in message
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You're not going to know until you put it in there and measure the
VSWR. But the good news is you can tune the antenna/feed-line after
its mounted but before you button things up. The question I'd have
about using a foil antenna attatched to a structure that flexes (like
a wing spar) is you may someday have a break in the foil after the
foil fatigues and then have a flakey antenna the behaves differently
in flight than on the ground when you're trying to debug it.

You insert the foil antenna inside a lightweight sheath which is affixed to
the inner skin of the horiz stab. Or the spar or whatever. The foil, like
that which you can purchase at RS, can flex inside the sheath and not break.