Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Day 7

Working on Inventor Drawings

Dimensions
The balsa wood for the airplane needs to be carefully selected. Earlier, the portions of the airplane that require extra strength due to flight stresses were mentioned: The main spars (leading edge and trailing edge) for the inner panel of the wing and the wing posts that come down from the spars should be the hardest you can find. The size of those spars are 1/16-inch square sticks. The sticks are sold in 36-inch lengths. The weight of each 36-inch stick should be about 0.7 grams. The second strong piece of wood is the fuselage motor stick. Its cross-section is 1/8 inch by 3/8 inch. A 36-inch length should weigh between 4.5 and 5.0 grams.

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