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Sneaky tapered wings?

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The Sky Pup’s slightly tapered wing is made by joining identical front and rear half ribs to a tapered spar and using little strips to bridge the gaps over the top of the spar. That got me thinking about other sneaky ways to create tapered wings with simplified methods. Off the top of my head….

1) Identical rib halves, tapered spars;
2) Identical whole ribs trimmed down progressively;
3) Identical rib components combined to create taper, such as progressively overlapping two half ribs or identical front/rear sections with a progressively smaller center plug;
4) Ultralight-style battens following natural contours with few or no true ribs at all.

Does anyone have any other ideas on this and/or specific examples of designs, homebuilt or otherwise, that use some sort of simplified approach to creating a tapered wing?

Cheers,

Matthew
 
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