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Making Aluminum Ribs

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FlyGood

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Dec 7, 2009
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Location
Houston area, Texas, USA
Hello,

I'm a new member, in the thinking and planning stages of designing and building a new wing out of aluminum. I'm a little familiar with Van's wings and would mimic their basic structural layout. My questions: Are there vendors out there that can stamp out (hyfroform?) ribs, forming the flange along top, bottom, front and rear, to which the skins and spars would be rivited? Is there a way for the homebuilder to manually build ribs like this? Finally, does the stamping, or other fabrication method require that the material be non heat-treated, with the heat treatment coming after the ribs are formed?

Thanks for your comments.
 
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