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Old 10-10-2011, 09:52 PM   #53 (permalink)
brucepick
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Beef her up best you can.She's really going to try and explode with the air crashing down on her.
Thanks. Yes I will beef it up.

I think the air impact is mostly around the middle. Based on: Before I added the stiffeners, it was bowing down in the mid section and up at the rear - but I suspect the up-at-rear might have been a kind of lever action, with the panel pivoting half way between the low and high points.

Does the bowing tell you anything about whether I put the horizontal trailing edge at the template line as I hoped to?? Or merely proves your point that it's subject to a lot of pressure?
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