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This may be only slightly off topic, but I'm building a foam core solid wing
for an iceboat/land yacht. I'm familiar with R/C model airplane foam core wings, but I'm not sure how to scale that up for what I'm doing. Here are the specs: 49 square feet pluggable sections (one 10 foot section, and one 6 foot section) wing is stayed at the 10 foot mark. main foil and flap ratio is 60%/40% respectively Something like 4' chord at the bottom, 2' chord at the top (main + flap) sheeted with probably 3/32 ply I'm looking for optinions, book references, and/or online links for helping me out. Specific questions a - how to build the main spar. I'm thinking a glass/carbon wrapped box spar that allows plugging in the top section - do I need more than the main spar? - I'm looking at affordable, not the utimate in light weight. If your interested, here is a discussion group talking about various design aspects of solid wing sails. If your really interested, your welcome to join the discussion group. http://groups.msn.com/LandsailerandI...ndconstruction Here is one construction method that works: http://groups.msn.com/LandsailerandI...oto&PhotoID=24 Thanks in advance Dave |
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