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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Foam Cores
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- References: <1992Aug20.194631.18577@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 02:36:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.194631.18577@linus.mitre.org> mmcevill@mitre.org (Michael A. McEvilley) writes:
- >In article <BtAEB2.7v5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- >ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug19.181318.29546@linus.mitre.org> mmcevill@mitre.org
- >(Michael A. McEvilley) writes:
- >> >In article <1992Aug18.214800.1782@iex.uucp> djones@iex.iex.com writes:
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- >> How about arranging these cap strips so you have "geodesic
- >> ribs"? Once you cut out the foam in between it'll be far
- >> stiffer than if you use simply back-to-front capstrips.
- >
- >Geodesic what!?!?!?! Had to look that one up (and who said RC was
- >non-educational)!
- >A diagram of what you are implying would still help.
-
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- Ummm... easy enough. Instead of having ribs at right angles to the
- spars you angle them at 60 degrees. Alternate ribs slant left and
- right, and meet behind the spar. (I assume you'd leave the wing in
- front of the spar solid and just cut out the foam behind the spar).
- This way the rib bays are triangular.
-
- Have a look at Norm McFadden's Creamsicles sometime. (Who? What?
- Creamsicles? 9-) )
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