On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:50:25 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Roger" wrote

Are you kidding? The last wood plane two wood planes I saw had more
nails in them than there are rivetts in a metal plane. The wing ribs
were built just like those in a model plane, except they used small
nails instead of pins. Tail, rudder, horizontal stab, elevator... All
the same way.

True, some use nails, and some use tack strips and pull all of them after
the glue is set. Some don't. I don't know what I was thinking. Reality is
a lot different than ideal practice, huh?

My wood plane would have no nails, and no metal in it at all. Ceramic
engine, Kevlar cables, Unobtanium where necessary ....the whole works. I'm
not even going to use a transponder. I'm going for stealth, you know.
Staying under the radar. g

Kinda like the tail in my G-III where they have you put the nav
antenna. Of course it's molded right to a carbon fiber shell.
Maybe it'll work, but by the time I get to use it I may be too old to
care.

Then there's all the salt from the sweat of working inside there.
Does swearing add to conductivity or magnetism? If so, how do your
degauss a fiberglass airplane?

Let's hope they at least used non magnetic stainless nails..... Oh, there
goes that darn ideal vs. reality again. g

You could always go with brass which is diamagnetic.

Man, I thought there was a lot of detail in the G-III and there is,
but after I watched Jack build the GP-4 and saw the insides of the
Barracuda I'd hate to see something with a *lot* of detail..

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Jim wrote

Low wing, high wing, electrical system, instruments installed, makeup of
instrument panel and materials used in the mountings? More details, if
anyone is to give a reasonable answer.

At least I asked for more details. That would help, in this case.

I think I don't like which way this whole thread is headed, anyway. I'm
going to back out gracefully..... or maybe stumbling! g