Wing weighting

[Richard Strickland]

Thanks Anthony for the encouragement.  I crashed it just about the time I
was starting to get comfortable with it--the right throws for the snaps,
right combination of nitro to pull crisply out of the vert. snap, etc., etc.
Covered the panel last night--over a multitude of sins--but I think it'll
hold together.  The fuse is in paint.  It'll be OK for a 2nd back-up and/or
beater.  Better than going back to a totally different philosophy airplane
in mid-season!  This year has gotten so screwed up with other stuff, I'm
already thinking about next.......

Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Romano" <anthonyr105 at hotmail.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: RE: Wing weighting


> Richard
> I understand your situation. Sometimes bad things happen. Great to see the
> perserverance.
>
>
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> take a peak at the link
>
>
> Anthony
>
> >From: "Richard Strickland" <richard.s at allied-callaway.com>
> >Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
> >To: "NSRCA" <discussion at nsrca.org>
> >Subject: Wing weighting
> >Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:58:04 -0500
> >
> >Gentlemen,
> >
> >I made a large error a few weeks ago and totaled the first Temptation.
Got
> >the second one done and had problems with the engine and it had to go
back.
> >  Wife had gone to California to help her Aunt move--So I'm home alone,
> >have to come home after work to let the dog out and the field is too far
> >away to practice after that with the old trusty OMS.  What to do--what to
> >do....  Got to looking at the "totaled" airplane and started tacking
pieces
> >back together--got to thinking hmmm--this might actually become an
airplane
> >again--called Lee and asked him for some cores and a chin cowl--told him
I
> >had two weeks of guilt free building time and would he send a set.  Well,
> >it was right before the Nats and it didn't happen--understandably.
> >
> >So I had this severely crunched left wing panel--really NOT
> >salvageable--now with all kinds of foam voids--wing socket knocked loose
> >and should have pitched it--but I didn't.  I did some judicious goobering
> >(read HEAVY) of epoxy and foam as best I could, lined up the wing halves
> >back in the shucks with the wing tube--weighted them, said a little
prayer
> >and let 'em set. Well, at least it started looking like a wing.  The
socket
> >was still a little wobbly and I still had to graft about 25% of the
> >crunched nose of it on and again--probably should've pitched it.  But
> >nooo.... I cut a couple lite-ply spars, cut grooves for them from the
> >bottom side up to the socket sides and glued those in--back in the
shucks.
> >Still didn't like the rigidity--so I did a couple spars on the top with a
> >contoured cross partial rib boxing the socket, grafted foam, resheeted as
> >needed, blah, blah, yada, yada... Could have done a set in this time.
Got
> >the new cores yesterday.
> >
> >Here's the Question:  Since I've added about 2.5-3 oz to the panel with
the
> >average about 30% out in span; would I add a similar amount of weight on
> >the other at roughly the same spot or LESS weight toward the end?  You
> >know--levers, arms and all that....  I'll fly it as is and see how it
> >reacts.  You don't have to tell me that I need to build another
> >panel--that's a given. Having an extra set of heavier panels around here
in
> >the spring wind may not necessarily be a bad thing. It started out at 10
> >lbs.-7ozs.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >             Richard
>
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