Comet
Sailplane Project
After I had determined the pylon location on the
fuselage structure and as I was starting to disassemble the model this
afternoon, I noticed that there was virtually no clearance between the
bottom of the sub fins and the work table as shown below. This was not good!
So I decided to lengthen the tail skid to provide a little more clearance.
The original 3/32" piano wire tail skid design
that was reported on in Report No. 44 is shown below.
The new tail skid I built this afternoon is shown
below. It provided over 3/4" of additional length.
As you can in the picture below, the bottom of
the sub fin now clears the work table by 0.8". A little more clearance would
have been better, but I did not want to overload the sub rudder in bending
with a longer tail skid when side loads occur..................Tandy