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Texas Parasol Plans...
Cla
Bearing strength is for the Connecting Points of all those items you mentioned. And the engineer stopped the test before complete failure from what I read. Excessive deflection is not a failure mode unless the engineer states it is out of spec. And again, what was the sandbag testing weight at which the testing was stopped? And again, excessive deflection where? In the skins? In the Spars? in the struts? You stated: ** "No- Gary built a wing according to plans and sandbag tested it under an engineer's supervision. The engineer stopped the loading before failure because of excessive deflection IIRC." ** And I have a set of plans, and I recall seeing the sleeves being called out in the manual. And I don't see where aluminum skins are in the plans. Again, deflection where? "And sleaves in the spars by your own admission. Which are NOT in the plans." See wing plan D-WING3. It clearly shows what to do on the wing as for the sleeve inserts to reinforce the connecting points, wing to cabane, and strut to wing. Look, this aircraft flies, in it's designed weight class, it has worked for many years. The designer flies it. There are many copies flying, and the death rate is not "significant" considering what happened in the accident reports. As you said, Clare, you are not an engineer. And you don't have current validated DATA to back you up. I have stated instances of you being incorrect in your assumptions. And in one of the instances, given you the reference for corrections of your statements. We are done. No response is necessary or wanted. This will be an agree to disagree situation and no further contact is warranted. Curtis Scholl |
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