Did I miss a design post on the site here that discusses design considerations for fabric wings? I may have just mis-Googled.
When putting together a ragwing, you obviously don't have a hard-surface skin in play any longer, so you've got to have that aft lift strut to keep the wing from twisting itself off. I guess you also don't have the bottom skin in tension any longer to help pick up the lifting loads from the bottom. I reckon you've got spars carrying the lifting loads, wing ribs carrying the torsion loads to the spars, and drag bracing internally keeping everything square.
So with that in mind, I presume your spars are your main design element, followed by rib designs to manage the pitching aspect of things?
When putting together a ragwing, you obviously don't have a hard-surface skin in play any longer, so you've got to have that aft lift strut to keep the wing from twisting itself off. I guess you also don't have the bottom skin in tension any longer to help pick up the lifting loads from the bottom. I reckon you've got spars carrying the lifting loads, wing ribs carrying the torsion loads to the spars, and drag bracing internally keeping everything square.
So with that in mind, I presume your spars are your main design element, followed by rib designs to manage the pitching aspect of things?
