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Old 09-01-2008, 08:50 AM
scon10 scon10 is offline
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Some updates on the wing construction.
The dihedral of the wing is maintained by compensating the weight of the wings by the spars. Since the spars are interupted in the middle under the fuselage, because of the engine construction, I needed an additional load carrying member to keep the wings upward at around 5 degrees. So I inserted a small wood brace between the left and right engines, see pics.

Further, I am using Red River silver paper, which unfortunately is rather thin, so to avoid the spars showing up as ridges throug the thin wing panels, I decided to cover the internal wing construction with a stiffer kind of cardboard, the light blue top and bottom panels you can see in the pics.
And so the wing and engines ware completed, see the last pictures to show how the Comet now looks like. Alas, not yet with the pinion tanks (as they apparantly were called).

Cheers for now.
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File Type: jpg Dihedral of wings.jpg (145.2 KB, 31 views)
File Type: jpg load path sub spar.jpg (165.8 KB, 32 views)
File Type: jpg wing under covers preparation.jpg (137.2 KB, 19 views)
File Type: jpg Wing under covers outer wing panel.jpg (120.2 KB, 28 views)
File Type: jpg fuselage and wing 3-4 aft view.jpg (176.5 KB, 46 views)
File Type: jpg fuselage and wing 3-4 front view.jpg (126.9 KB, 40 views)
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