Considering building a Fly Baby

Jim Carriere wrote:
J.Kahn wrote:

nicropress skills. If I was building one I would use 1x19 cable
instead of 7x19 with terminal swages instead of nicropress, or better
yet streamline rod.


You absolutely need to read this article about streamline rod and the
Fly Baby on Ron's website:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/safety/hinton.htm

Kinda surprised me too

Streamline rod seems like a good idea on the surface, but it's not
always the best solution for all types of aircraft. Well, the article
explains it best.

Yeah that's an eye opener all right. Thanks for bringing it up. Guess
the intersection cross tie used on biplanes mainly to reduce noise from
the wires vibrating has a much more important function that people realise!

John