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Re: Wing Airfoils

John Carnahan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:15:03 GMT

I won't argue with that then..... Jack ... From: Kent Carder To: TailwindForum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:09 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Wing Airfoils

Kent Carder — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:35:19 GMT

My apologies to the group. This will be my only rebuttal to the previous statement that unfortunately DID take the group off subject. I do have a problem

Re: Wing Airfoils

Lee Welburn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:01:52 GMT

Hi Kent I don't want to get the group off topic but you seem to have a major issue with China, I just want to point out that any country has it's share of poor

Re: Wing Airfoils

Kent Carder — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:10:24 GMT

I don't mean to sound like a negative nellie or whatever you may call it, but I for one wouldn't buy one, fly one, sit in one or look at one. This is based

Re: Wing Airfoils

Paul Mulwitz — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:31:05 GMT

Hi John, The Cessna 162 is a really strange story. It is late to market (there are already over 100 "Certified" S-LSA planes from other vendors). It is, at

Re: Wing Airfoils

John — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:45:43 GMT

Paul, looking through AOPA articles from last summer there is a pilot brief about the SkyCatcher. I'll bet Cessna wishes that it had kept the plane a secret

metal wings

richarddotcom — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:34:11 GMT

Barry I would love to see pics of your set up. Is there a rear baffel similar to the RVs so the fuel is not up against the spar? Thanks

metal wings

Barry — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:46:57 GMT

I have a set of metal wings ready to skin.Fuel is in first 6 ft of leading edge. fully removable, I figure aprox. 17 gal,per side. Will take photos if anyone

Re: Skinning wing

John — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:39:47 GMT

Keith, I used 1/4" nylon tubing, got a steal on it when the local Ace Hardware went out of business. If you ever want to change the wiring for any reason

Re: Skinning wing

KeithK — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:30:56 GMT

Mike and Jim, I did as Jim suggested and just sanded the slope to match the skin and it seems like it will work fine without a filler strip. My next step is

Re: wet wings

Gordon Parker — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:35:22 GMT

probably just a 1 holer. Does that plane have a "Bathroom" too ??? . . . . Gotta Fly... . . . Buttercup - STOL - Aircraft

Re: wet wings

Mike & "Jaz" — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:29:29 GMT

Does that plane have a "Bathroom" too ??? . . . . Gotta Fly... . . . Buttercup - STOL - Aircraft

wet wings

Gordon Parker — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:13:48 GMT

The Nov. 09 Kitplane mag. has interesting picture of the wet wing for a "Foxtrot 4 kit." Total capacity 100 gal. The picture is on page 11. Looks like they

Re: WING TANKS

bbernard1945@... — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:49:08 GMT

When I was building my wings, I considered leading edge tanks, copied from an RV6, for the fuel. The problem I saw was the probable large amount of unusable

Re: Skinning wing

Jim Clement — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:26:46 GMT

Mike We will be there. Jim ... From: "Michael Corso" To: Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:11 PM