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Originally Posted by freebeard
It seems like a shame to sandwich wood between chrome-moly steel and aluminum. Will it be cedar or redwood so it doesn't rot out? Possibly you could shear the flash metal into strips and bend them into mullions.
Wood or aluminum, if you lay them out like the deHaviland Mosquito, the flash metal could be cut into larger [diamond] pieces with fewer seams.
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At 66x21" and 1/3rd scale that's only a 15 1/2x5 1/2' vehicle. Maybe it's 1/4th scale?  At 1/2 scale it would be the size of a Lakester belly-tank. |
*It will be western red cedar attached to the space frame to create the 'shape'.' As is done with cloth covered aircraft.
*Aluminum attachment points will be attached to the wood,as in aircraft construction.
*panels will be attached,rear to front,as shingles,just a SR-71.If there's binding,the panels will have to be slit to release the bind,with a metal Bandaid riveted in behind.
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*I'm confused about your 66X 21" measurement and where that comes from.
Any model going to the wind tunnel will need to be at least 8' in length or it will never produce a critical Reynolds number,and that means that it would not have a constant Cd.And we'd learn nothing.
