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  1. lesterpalifka

    Travis from Connecticut

    Hi I'm Lester I live in Vernon... i have a small airport in ellington about 4 mi from the house. I am a design draftsman. maybe i could jump on your badwagon... i have solidworks and autocad here at home. i have been a designer now for 40+ yeras... lets talk... 860 870 4408... lester
  2. lesterpalifka

    NEW MEMBER FROM CONNECTICUT

    Hi all, My name is Lester Palifka. I hail from Connecticut. I have been interested in aircraft all my life. Both my dad and my uncle worked for Kaman Aircraft in Bloomfield. I grew up playing in hok's, h43b's and hu2k seasprites. I am 61 years old. I am a machine designer and have been a...
  3. lesterpalifka

    Folding wing designs?

    . I am designing a folding wing for my buddies plane. he sent me pics of this design very simple and easy to install. it should work well withg what you want to do. i can send you detail drawings when i get it adapted to his plane... lester
  4. lesterpalifka

    Aircraft Design using T-Splines for Rhino

    Thank you Sky. i will certainly go and check out the webinar that you gave the link too. my airfoils i use a program called profilli.. i run that for the airfoil shap (they have over 2000 airfoils in a library) export as a dxf then import into solidworks and then i do my loft from that i cut...
  5. lesterpalifka

    How to get a proper airfoil into CAD?

    Hi there.. I run a program called profilli...it has a libray of like 2300 airfoils. i just run a airfoil in profilli plot it out as a dxf file import into solidworks. the only thing i have to do si trace the profile with spline in solidwroks as profilli uses way to many points to gnerate the...
  6. lesterpalifka

    Aircraft Design using T-Splines for Rhino

    [/ATTACH][/ATTACH] Good morning, my name is lester palifka and i am new to this forum.. I have heard of Rino. how does it compare to Solidworks (which i use along with autocad here at home). i have heard that it is easy to use. was just wondering. I use lofting function to do my wings and...
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