DanielLogan
Member
G'day Tom,
wow what an undertaking! I stumbled apon this thread on google. I am keen on replica fighters and am a little way into a ww1 nieuport 17 build, however thats rather stagnant. I just want to say keep up the good work! I have been throwing idea's around about a 80% Hurricane myself, however the Mustang has always attracted me. I completly understand your idas of Steel tube then covered in ALuminium. Jurca did it so it has to be able to be done, and as you have mentioned many times as has Titan. I would like to get in on the project with you one way or another. I am a LAME down under here in Australia (Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer) A&P or IA in US terms. I have recently moved states for a job in a warbird maintenance shop. We maintain in house a P40, CAC 18 (Aussie built P-51) several AT-6's, T 28's. We do all fabrication ourselves so have all the gear. So I have complete access to a Mustang if you need reference shots etc. After reading through all 8 pages of reply's spanning over a year, an alternative to your design could be a comination of semi-monocoque and steel tube construction such as an aeroplane like the T-6. Just a thought.
Have you given any thoughts to the tail surfaces? In the planning of the Hurricane I like the idea's of using simple tryed methods, limiting the machining and custom extrutions if possible. Using simple methods like folded channels or extruded angles all easily available from aircraft material suppliers. For the horizontal tail for example I was planning on just using 0.050" or something folded in a U channel. Alternativly using just sheet 0.032" for the web and angle for the caps. Anyway, Orion may point out flaws in those theories, though I would like to hear what loads are placed on the horizontal tail and how one calculates that.
Daniel
wow what an undertaking! I stumbled apon this thread on google. I am keen on replica fighters and am a little way into a ww1 nieuport 17 build, however thats rather stagnant. I just want to say keep up the good work! I have been throwing idea's around about a 80% Hurricane myself, however the Mustang has always attracted me. I completly understand your idas of Steel tube then covered in ALuminium. Jurca did it so it has to be able to be done, and as you have mentioned many times as has Titan. I would like to get in on the project with you one way or another. I am a LAME down under here in Australia (Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer) A&P or IA in US terms. I have recently moved states for a job in a warbird maintenance shop. We maintain in house a P40, CAC 18 (Aussie built P-51) several AT-6's, T 28's. We do all fabrication ourselves so have all the gear. So I have complete access to a Mustang if you need reference shots etc. After reading through all 8 pages of reply's spanning over a year, an alternative to your design could be a comination of semi-monocoque and steel tube construction such as an aeroplane like the T-6. Just a thought.
Have you given any thoughts to the tail surfaces? In the planning of the Hurricane I like the idea's of using simple tryed methods, limiting the machining and custom extrutions if possible. Using simple methods like folded channels or extruded angles all easily available from aircraft material suppliers. For the horizontal tail for example I was planning on just using 0.050" or something folded in a U channel. Alternativly using just sheet 0.032" for the web and angle for the caps. Anyway, Orion may point out flaws in those theories, though I would like to hear what loads are placed on the horizontal tail and how one calculates that.
Daniel