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Title: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: Rudy Taube on January 27, 2010, 11:59:50 PM
Has anyone done, or seen, a profile take-apart wing setup? I have some ideas but would rather use someones tried and true design if available. ;-) ... TIA
Title: Re: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: Chris Gilbert IRL-1638 on June 14, 2010, 06:36:53 AM
I saw a really neat one recently.

The fuselage was a thick profile, perhaps 1 inch thick, but it was still a profile. The wing spar of one of the two wing halves was bound/glued/stuck to a carbon tube - again about 1 inch diameter, which passed through the fuselage (via a fibreglass tube) to the other wing half, which used a fibreglass tube to slip over the main carbon tube. A smaller diameter carbon rod was used at the rear of the wing halves through the fuselage.

The ensemble was secured using a single bolt, tapped into the main carbon tube. There were also small flanges on the rear of the fuselage to aid alignment.

Very nice constuction, simple and it flew very well.
Title: Re: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: TDM on June 14, 2010, 10:24:46 AM
Use Tom Morris take apart system. It is easy to use.
Title: Re: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: Larry Wong on July 31, 2010, 11:03:02 PM
Rudy I hope this works
Title: Re: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: Russell Shaffer on August 01, 2010, 09:14:04 AM
You might consider a one piece wing, bolted on from the bottom?  Pat King has a Ringmaster trainer with a wing rubber banded to the fuselage, but you could modify the idea. 
Title: Re: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: Howard Rush on August 06, 2010, 11:42:05 AM
Clever Brazilian electric profile.  One may not want to try this with an internal-combustion-engine-powered profile.
Title: Re: Ideas needed for a Profile take-apart wing?
Post by: Russell Shaffer on August 07, 2010, 09:30:23 PM
Actually, it is an interesting idea.  Just make the connecting parts more robust and hang a 60 on it.  I still prefer the plan of bolting the wing to the bottom of the fuselage, just have to quit talking and actually do it.