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Old January 23rd 07, 06:42 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
Mustardbuilder
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Default Wing walk ply question.

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1/4" ply will bend more easily if you orient the grain

across
the bend instead of along it. The grain should be parallel to the
spars.
If it's 1/4" birch ply, that would seem a lot of

overkill
for a wingwalk. If it's 1/4" pine or fir, it should bend without

any
problem.



Well, I was planning to use birch in fact. hadn't thought about using
anything else but now you have me thinking. My real concern about
bending the stuff in the first place was, in fact, the stiffness of

the
Birch ply. I imagined it never reall settling down. The 1/4 birch I

have
is 12 ply and is like iron!


What do the plans call for? Any specific type of plywood?


no, he pretty much leaves the whole thing up to the builder. Not much
more than a mention that there is one!

What

hatz..

model of aircraft is it? 1/4" birch is awfully heavy, and if that's
what the designer calls for I'd wonder how overbuilt the rest of the
airplane is. My Jodel has a wingwalk of 1/8" birch and it's good
enough.


Well, it's a pretty strong airplane. He calls for Mahogony or birch
throughout but I've got a good supply of aircraft birch so that's what
I'm using (there's not a lot of ply in it anyway) They come out
reasonably light if you don't go nuts on things, though. I have a good
idea what I want to do with the wing walk, but I just didn't want to
make a mess with the ply top.
 




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