braol
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Joined: 06-12-2023
Location: Portage, WI, USA
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The gist of what I was saying was part serious and partly as an academic engineering question (which is always entertaining). Considering all the limited traditional ways to lower the empty weight of a Taylorcraft and increase what we can carry, the technological advances in materials like titanium...Last edited by braol; 1 week ago. -
In the 8+ years since thus topic was started has anyone done the baggage compartment in carbon fiber panels? That alone would make a big difference in the weight/moment arm of the compartment materials and increase the utility of such a great mod. (Now, if we could just get a titanium tail-wheel spring...Leave a comment:
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By fiber bar stock, do you mean phenolic material? (I assume with the STC that they go with a plastic material because it has more 'give' than, say, a metal-type bushing that would tend to crack the spar?)
What diameter are those fiber bushings? Are they machined from square rods or cut...Last edited by braol; 2 weeks ago.Leave a comment:
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Too bad we're not the Super Cub community...someone would have produced a titanium part by now...with a bushplane option of some sort I'm sure.Leave a comment:
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