Airbike Plans

Rib profiles could be left as a scan of the original
somehow...although I don't have that large a scanner, but I have laid
out an airfoil profile before in AutoCAD using chord stations and
figures as listed in "Theory of Wing Sections". It seemed to
reproduce the airfoil faithfully. Such a method could be used here,
too, provided the type of airfoil is known.

Granted, my offer to help convert the plans to DXF files was shooting
from the hip. It would stand to reason that reproduction of the
drawings would have to be done with the utmost care.

On Jan 6, 9:31*am, Monty wrote:
Rib profiles could be left as a scan of the original
somehow...although I don't have that large a scanner, but I have laid
out an airfoil profile before in AutoCAD using chord stations and
figures as listed in "Theory of Wing Sections". *It seemed to
reproduce the airfoil faithfully. *Such a method could be used here,
too, provided the type of airfoil is known.

Granted, my offer to help convert the plans to DXF files was shooting
from the hip. *It would stand to reason that reproduction of the
drawings would have to be done with the utmost care.

Actually, ACad should be perfectly adequate for most of the Airbike.
It's a pretty basic set of plans for a basic plane. It's all 2D on
paper so there is no need for 3D files. I have better CAD and can do
the "nasty" stuff. If you or anyone else is seriously interested in
doing the Airbike in CAD I'd be willing to kind of coordinate the
project, even though I don't have time to make much of a contribution
myself due to other projects time demands. I'll never build one but I
know that there are many others that probably would if they could get
a set of plans..................

Contact me off list if you are interested.