Re: Illinois State Wright Stuff

From: leop12345 <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:01:26 -0000

John Brayton

I find it difficult to understand how SO WS competitors can
incorrectly build the stab of the airplane to larger than the maximum
chord allowed. This made me think. If a student builds the stab
with tissue tubes on the outer edge of the spars (and perhaps uses
some small balsa gussets as reinforcement), will the chord then be
measured from the outside of the tissue tubes rather than the outside
of the stab spars? I have seen plans and pictures of AMA and FAI
free flight models where the tissue tubes are on the outside of the
wing and stab spars. I recall the wing and stab chords being
measured from the spars rather than the tissue tubes but I may be
mistaken.

Thanks,
Leo Pilachowski, Bloomington IN

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "c4gl45" <c4gl45@...>
wrote:
>
> It was held at the University of Illinois in Champaign. I believe
the
> height of the Armory is 98 ft. The majority of the dimensional
problems
> were with the stabilizer cords being too large.
>
> ~John Brayton
> Crystal Lake, IL
Received on Tue Apr 24 2007 - 14:03:16 CEST