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05-24-2007, 11:19 AM
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| I'm only 'twee years old   Join Date: Feb 2007
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 |  question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
was wondering if anyone knows of a totally carbon fibre plane out there....pics,anything showing construction, ect....it would be REAL light! be cool to see some ideas....anybody?  |
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05-24-2007, 11:48 AM
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| FASST Solutions  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Spring Hill, Florida
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|  Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
I got a CF stick plane. Does that count?
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05-24-2007, 11:52 AM
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| Drakien is my hero  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Frederick, Maryland
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 | Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
I have seen some pictures of a totally laid up CF plane. I tried to do a quick search to find pictures for you but came up dry. As I recall it was an aerobatic bird like a Yak as a recall a round cowl. It was large too. It had a finish like a Mejzlik prop too. Looked cool. Might need to pull the Rx behind it on a streamer though...............
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05-24-2007, 12:36 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Gainesville, TX Age: 35
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| Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
Guess you could put 2.4 in it and place a little rubber ducky antenna on top of the rudder...
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05-24-2007, 12:56 PM
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| Flyin' Around  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Royse City,Tx Age: 31
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| Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
I used a cheapo Raidentech Acipiter Badius as a mold once, when I had a roll of free CF that was 6 ft wide and 600ft long, just for fun. Looked cool, but I never finished it. I was just playing around while selling the CF on ebay. Got it for free because I had a cousin working at Cytech at the time and the roll didn't weigh right.
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05-24-2007, 01:11 PM
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| I'm only 'twee years old Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
i mean like a in the bones kind of...you know... the fuse, wings ,stab.... covered in anything....silk, monocoat(would it even work?)ultra, mean all stringers and such
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05-24-2007, 01:17 PM
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| I'm only 'twee years old Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
would like to try and reproduce some plane out of carbon fiber, do they make sheet cf? i know they got tubes and rods and hex and square stock....and how to glue it together?hmmmm....  |
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05-24-2007, 01:32 PM
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| Super Contributer   Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lubbock, Tx
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| Re: question:has anyone ever made a totally carbon fibre plane?
About 5 years ago or so Lance and Gray at Aeroslave made a Pattern fuse totally out of CF. It was extremely light but also very $$ to do. To my knowledge they only made one. After this, again if I am thinking right, Radio problems and antenae placement were problematic. You can find Aeroslave's e-mail address at NSRCA.org if you wanted to e-mail Lance. Ed |
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