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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Hey Everybody, What fantastic materials have I referred to JL? Road kill perhaps? What I have mentioned is building my own cardboard's as nobody makes a pre-bent cardboard and wings aren't flat. People do call paper based egg cartons "cardboard egg...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    I'm back, Here is another thought to put into the formula: In terms of the simplest possible means of "steering the beast" I have come up with the following: Balloons can compress and act as air springs that place their stress along a large area. Also bladders can fill...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Hello again everybody, No, Topaz, I think not. "normal" corrugated cardboard likes to be flat, wings aren't flat. Fold that stuff and one weakens it. Corrugation offers so many advantages that to simply use card seems a poor choice, but I suppose if backed by egg carton honeycomb or...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Hello again, I have further thoughts on the corrugation. Has anyone experience in the manufacture of "specialty corrugated paper", made with paper straws ? If such straws are pressurized then they should self clamp if properly positioned on the mold of a wing when the...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Hey Everybody, First off, by know you already know why I have few friends. I am consummately arrogant. I have found this a necessity in my life. I didn't used to be arrogant, but I've few if any options, being as clever as I am, and that being my only real gift...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    That, was mean. Have you never heard of the saga of Lochead? The early boys never, never, attempted to say that silly computations could possibly beat experiment. Why the vega was built before much of our testing equipment even was thought of, and there are examples still flying of those...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Actually, the larger a structure is the more strong it tends to be for a given thickness, and for practical reasons there is usually a minimum effective thickness and usually a maximum effective thickness as well with regard to one's chosen material, especially in a structure that must by nature...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    A correction I remembered a thing or two about that rubber airplane. The important thing is yes it did have flying wires. I can't believe I forgot this, as it was one of the principle argument I had with the fellow I was working with. I wanted them, he said the angle was wrong and they...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Again marvelous stuff, thanks everyone. I like the two stroke info; I might need that and it sounds very nice indeed; very good power to weight ratios on two stroke engines, and the faster operation might actually help with keeping engine mounts together. The question is is there enough...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Thanks all, Actually, there was a stipulation in the bet that multiple small lawn mower engines be utilized as power plants. Yes I know, power to weight ratios are not ideal. But there was an airplane that flew with bungee assisted takeoff way back when with a three cylinder Franklin...
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    cardboard and duct tape airplane

    Carboard and Duck Tape Airframes Hey All, I have, despite the obvious risk to life and limb, taken a bet that I can indeed build and fly a cardboard and duct tape airplane for 1/2 hour at 50 feet. Now, I haven't worked in the field in several decades (not since being run over by that...
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