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    Any Composite Building DVDs?

    Try Fiberglast. They seem to have a large selection for just about anything. http://www.fibreglast.com/showproducts-category-DVDs%20and%20Videos-118.html
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    Boeing 787 - Metal Thinking in Composites

    I think the “simplest” answer to the question of why the 787 doesn’t use a sandwich skin is that it wouldn’t provide much, if any, advantage. The core of a sandwich is nothing more than the web of an I-beam, and provides separation of the two skins (flanges in the I-beam example). This is most...
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    Molding a canopy.

    My 2 cents about the peanut shape… Polymers are really quirky, and they are very sensitive to temperature and strain rate (percent change in length per time). If you think of the canopy in three sections, you end up with a quarter sphere attached to a half cylinder attached to a quarter...
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    Newer PWC motors

    Point taken about the complexity of the cooling system. However, I asked a friend at a large marine motor company about the header cooling, and he tells me that for marine engines, proper airflow will most likely eliminate the need for the water jacket on the headers. Apparently the sealed...
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    Swept Away

    I read a thread on this forum the other day about swept wings. After chewing on Orion’s response for a few days, I thought out another question. Of course, now I can’t find the thread that I was reading, so I’m forced to start a new one. This is where the details aircraft fundamentals...
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    Just getting started

    More of just a figure of speach. I tend to be a prefectionist, which I see as a huge plus if I'm gonna fly anything I build. Add that to finishing up my engineering masters and starting my MBA, time runs short. Oh, yeah, there's that pesky job I gotta keep going to every day:gig: . I've have...
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    Newer PWC motors

    I’m new to this forum, and I have been sort of circling above, reading thought a whole bunch of topics. I have seen at least one of the posts where Orion points out the similarities of the duty cycle between marine and aircraft engines. But I have yet to see anything regarding using...
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    Just getting started

    Hello everyone, I'm new to the website, but not necessarily the idea. The problem is that's it been more of an idea than a reality. I figured if I start now, by the time I'm 50 (now 32) I might actually be finished with a plane. I'm really using this forum to become educated and start a...
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