Eagler's Nest
General Category => Off Topics and General Interest => Topic started by: grdev on March 11, 2014, 08:25:36 AM
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Steve, your an engineer, & familiar with The Graham Lee designs such as the Miranda and the Nieuports. They have a press that they use to compress aluminum into a some what of a streamlined shape. Would this work for the struts on the XL?
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Steve, your an engineer, & familiar with The Graham Lee designs such as the Miranda and the Nieuports. They have a press that they use to compress aluminum into a some what of a streamlined shape. Would this work for the struts on the XL?
Gil: Well, I'm actually a wood butcher but I have read that pressing alum tube into an oval materially weakens it in the lift strut application... I would never use the oval tube unless it has been engineered for the specific airplane... Steve