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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby BWD » Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:24 pm

:thumb: nice work bending and welding the aluminum! I respect that, I do no real metal work myself. It's cool!
Did you weld and grind on it more to smooth it out after the unpainted picture, or is it riding like that?
Do you know the top speed?

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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby platslagarn » Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:38 am

it was completed in the picture. no grinding. speed I know nothing about yet. must get better ......
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby revhed » Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:56 am

One of the nicest front wing builds I have seen. :thumb:
We learned many years ago on a flat cord, only TE and LE profiled, 5mm aircraft alu F wing which due to work hardening lived only about 2 years.
I always wanted to test a thin profiled "coanda" style to see how it would fly!
Good for you.
You will want to go fasted and start in lower wind so cleaning up the fuse to STRUT joint will help hydrodynamics considerably.
Make sure to use tufgel or similar at SS to alu contact areas, and , or rinse with fresh H20 from time to time.
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