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Dan Nickens - Mar 15,2004
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The morning newspaper included a story on the SeaRey being built at the Orlando Science Center. To view it you have to complete a quick registration. Kudos to the crew building it, including Jim Thomas, and Jim Buchan.www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle under "A flying exhibit, borne on the wings of comaraderie."<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Jim Thomas - Mar 16,2004
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Dan,<br /><br />Thanks for tooting my horn. We have a good time building at the Science Center, but we have had some squabbles. The first thing I told them was to build the wings last. What did they do? Yep, they were one of the first things finished. I also told them the STS group feels the ribs need more support. They're built the factory way.<br /><br />I'd been leaving messages that the landing gear didn't work, but one group put on the turtle deck making it incredibly hard to troubleshoot.<br /><br />Sigh. <br /><br />It'll be a good airplane, but I call it the Camel. As in 'a camel is a horse designed by committee.'
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Mar 22,2004
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Jim, the wing ribs are fine as designed by the factory. Really. The only change I made was I replaced the supplied packing tape with Polyfiber flat lacing cord with several turns at each location and tied securely. I know some would disagree with me about not adding more aluminum supports, but I believe this should not be done, unless you go though the trouble of a true truss design. But if something like the lacing cord is used as mentioned above at the single vertical supports, instead of the lousy packing tape, the wings will be fine.
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Jim Thomas - Mar 23,2004
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Mark,<br /><br />I have to disagree. Several builders have added additional supports to maintain the shape of the wing under flight pressure. On our 'Rey, we used 1/2' x 4' pieces of sheet aluminum in lieu of the strapping tape. They're rivetted in place and will be covered with a piece of pinking tape to prevent chafing. On the OSC 'Rey, we'll do something similar, if we can get the committee to agree.
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Mar 25,2004
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My concern about simply adding more vertical supports between the upper and lower ribs (which I almost did on mine), is under flight pressure, the upward flexing of the lower rib would simply be transmitted to the upper rib, placing an upward stress on the upper ribs. I tested this on my own ribs by pushing upward on the lower ribs by hand, with the new added supports in place, and I didn't like how the upper ribs also flexed up. I talked to Kerry at PA about what I was seeing, and he confirmed that this is what would happen and why they don't add them either. In other words, simply adding more vertical supports does not maintain the wing shape. You would have to go to a truss design to accomplish this. I removed the added supports and went with the original design.
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