I'm pretty close to buying the plans for a plane that is becoming popular in Europe but seems to be virtually unknown elsewhere. The plane is a Gaz'aile 2 http://gazaile2.free.fr/index.php .The plane itself is wooden but the wing is composite. I'm interested to know what you think of this wing building method. http://gazaile2.free.fr/englishInformations.pdf
It is fairly high aspect, untapered and fairly heavily loaded at 18lb/sqf.
The spar is made up of a foam shear web with timber and pultruded carbon caps. I can remember reading on here that using carbon and timber together like this is a no no. There are around fifty of these aircraft flying with some over 1000 hours so it obviously works.
The wing is a laminar flow section with very closely spaced PVC foam ribs, then covered in plywood. Looks like a quick, simple and reasonably cheap way to build a wing.
Mark
It is fairly high aspect, untapered and fairly heavily loaded at 18lb/sqf.
The spar is made up of a foam shear web with timber and pultruded carbon caps. I can remember reading on here that using carbon and timber together like this is a no no. There are around fifty of these aircraft flying with some over 1000 hours so it obviously works.
The wing is a laminar flow section with very closely spaced PVC foam ribs, then covered in plywood. Looks like a quick, simple and reasonably cheap way to build a wing.
Mark