Re: feather prop blades

From: jabiruchick <jabiruchick_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 02:26:34 -0000

Sure-- Alphonse Penaud did when he built his rubber-powered Planophores in the 1870s!

There's a neat article about Planophores in Bill Hannan's "Stick & Tissue International."

Katie


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <ididnotkilljfk@...> wrote:
>
> just an off the cuff question but has anyone ever tried using bird feathers in constructing prop blades?
> obviously some sort of glue perhaps cyano to consolidate the individual folicles into an unbroken sheet?
>
> Rob D
>
Received on Mon May 03 2010 - 19:30:53 CEST