pilotsailing
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I am in the process of building a Sonerai Stretch . The plans have a fuel tank behind the instrument panel but it only holds 10 gallons. I have been thinking about using the wings as long range fuel tanks. I don't want to add any unnecessary weight. The plans call for wing skins of .025 and .025 ribs with rivet spacing of every 2 inches. If I close up the rivet spacing to 1 inch will .025 be thick enough to carry fuel? There is about 8 inches between ribs and I want to carry the fuel aft of the spar, so the tank length would be about 30 inches. If necessary I could go to .032 but this adds about 7 - 10 lbs
