"W P Dixon"
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Yeah the one strap for the wing join just "needs" something doesn't
it! As for the main struts,..if you use the design diameters it
should be ok wouldn't you think. They did build these as a kit and of
course I am just guessing here (since I wasn't alive wayyy back then!
) but if there had been a warping problem as "built as designed"
wouldn't we have heard about it? Not arguing with you mind you, it is
a distinct possibility with "not the right stuff" for the job. I may
have to just get an old mechanix Illustrated copy and see the changes
Paul made,...heck I may like his design as well.


Oh yes, the struts. on the relatively short wing, they're probably OK the
way they are. Pope Paul added jury struts to his, but he also used
streamlined tubing which is narower along the short axis and so might have
been more flexible (though I doubt it)
Lots of similar airplanes ofthe period had no jury struts (monocoupe 113
and 70, ST. Louis Cardinal, Inland Sport, etc) so it may be that round,
faired struts are less flexible in compression.
The other major change i can see is that Paul deleted the "N" strut on the
open model and subsituted a drag wire in it's place. The cabin model
doesn't use one, of course.
People have built cabin models of the modern designs as well. Most of these
are "convertible" i.e., they are plexiglass enclosures that can be taken
off in summer, but a few have built them permanently enclosed by adding a
fairing from the trailing edge straight back to the stab.
There's also at least one undr construction using the rotec radial engine,
which should really look the business when it flies!