I am currently rebuilding my LAZAIR III.
I was thinking I wouldn't have much work to do on my wings.
Wrong!!!... I ended up having to untwitst my wing tips as the tip incidance on D-cells were way off from straight. The D-cell had been wraped around the spar and ribs and this on both wings, with a wrongly located bent radius on the leading edge which maid my spars shift and twist and maid the incidance way off.
When I went to buy this plane I was told that the last guy who did fly the plane,realy scared himself.
No wonder!!!
I will soon put some picture on my web site and on this forum to show you what this looked like when wrong and than corrected and most of the prosedures I followed.
At first. I was seeing all this as someting fairly complicated. But once I had the D-cells opended up and understood how they were maid and what maid them twist. I kind of realised that it wouldn't be that hard to make new ones. So I cam up with the idea that I could offer D-cells to people that needs them.
Ho!!! Don't worry This is pretty much what I do for a living . I build airplanes for people that buy kitplanes. Some of you will probably say this was nothing major and that there are planes flying with wing in worrst condisions. But to me, good is not enought. I want the best when it comes to airplanes.
I realy like the way de D-cells are maid and it is just a mather of starting straight and having good jiggs.So!! This is my question: Is anyone out there that needs new D-cells.Let my know!
I already took tamplats of each foam ribs.I could also make the other long ribs.
I will probably build myself a set of D-cells for my own bird anyway.
Keep in touche guys.
John
LAZAIR 4 EVER.