Date: Wednesday, November 1 2006 03:48 am From: Kingsley Hurst To: rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us Reply-To: Kingsley Hurst Subject: RE: Rigging upside down? Attachments: Part 1: noname (TEXT/PLAIN 7bit 2633 bytes) Part 2: Trial Fairing Profile.jpg (IMAGE/JPEG base64 118742 bytes) Part 3: Port Wing Fairing 2.JPG (IMAGE/JPEG base64 45212 bytes) Part 4: Stbd Lower Fairing from rear.jpg (IMAGE/JPEG base64 40758 bytes) Part 5: Stbd Upper Fairing rear part.jpg (IMAGE/JPEG base64 44572 bytes) Part 6: Stbd U'side foam sanded.jpg (IMAGE/JPEG base64 40532 bytes) Part 7: Port Wing Fairing 1.JPG (IMAGE/JPEG base64 48550 bytes) Part 8: Port flap down taken from rear.jpg (IMAGE/JPEG base64 48414 bytes) Ron, The 15 photos have now arrived thank you. I've stayed back after work to check them out. You asked : What are the reasons you rigged your plane upside down? The only reason I rigged it upside down was to make it possible to make my under wing fairings. I have not done the fairings like the manual says. I put foam in the areas to be faired and sanded them to the required profile. I then laid up a couple of plies of bid from the wings onto the fuselage. This made the wings joined to the fuse. After cure, I used a hacksaw blade and made a cut line so that half of the fairing remained on the wing and the other half on the fuse. I then opened up the saw cut to approx 3 mm using a thin piece of plywood with sandpaper on both sides. Was a shit of a job doing it but it ended up quite good. After removal of the wings, I then laid up over the remaining foam on the insides. It was a lot of work and it took me a couple of months to complete it. I intend putting some foam on one of the mating surfaces and when rigged, to also run a piece of white PVC tape right around over the join line from trailing edge to trailing edge like we do on gliders. This makes the wing joint a perfect seal for long cross country flights. I'll have a look to see if I can find a photo or three to attach hereto. Now to your photos. Nice work Ron. Cobra3.jpg I really like the balsa idea Ron. Had I seen this before I put mine in or had I had the brains in the first place, I would have done the same. You should have no problems with print through etc. Cobra4.jpg Just thinking that when you put the redux around the filler neck, you could have a bit of a problem trying to smooth it out on the underside with the vents so close to the filler neck but I guess you'll sort that problem out. Elbow Clamps.jpg I see you have one of those heavy duty clamps on the inlet to the tank. I was tempted to use some of those myself ( I bought them ) but gave away the idea when I felt how heavy they are. Even wondered about replacing the round steel inserts with aluminium ones. Sorry aluminum to you ! Roll Bar Theory.jpg versions 1 & 2 I think this idea has potential Ron and I'm going to give it more thought. At this moment, I am wondering how to connect to the chrome molly tubing. Would you weld a triangular piece of flat to it ? If you have a brilliant idea for this please let me know. It's getting late again so I had better go home for some dinner. Chat again soon Kingsley PS I didn't own a digital camera when the attached photos were taken.