Thursday, March 5, 2009

Cabanes and a wing section?

I know this is a bad picture, but here are the pieces for the cabanes laid out on the floor. They are a lot bigger than I thought they would be! I don't think I realized the scale of this project, heh!

I should note that in putting these together with the mass of brackets that I have found two more parts that are mis-dimensioned. The top triangle 3/4" OD tube should be 20-7/8" instead of 20-3/4" and the front one I have not measured yet because my remaining tube is too short to fit. Dang. Also, the cabane channel on G4W10 is too narrow; it should be 1-1/4" channel to fit around the 1" OD rear cabane tube.

I also worked on the wing! Well, I'm making a fake center section that will allow me to put the cabanes on the nose section. This shows just 6" little pieces of the spar tubes that represent the whole wing. I likely can also add a rib down just a few inches to make these sections more stable and get the feel of how they go together.

You can see the mass of brackets that are going into these pieces. So far, running on 10 pieces of bracket and still have another 6 flat ones to go. I am out of 3/4" OD tube to make the root rib, so it'll be a while before this really goes on the nose/cabanes. But, it's cool to hold these in my hand and realize how sturdy they are and get a feel of the mass of the root joint. Whew!

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