1/3.3 Ventus 3

[French1]

Just a bit more details on the lay up in case someone wonder

Spar cap lay up is done on the core, first ribbon wet and flipped over, I work the epoxy with CC and a roller, before applying the second ribbon I put some epoxy down to wet lower face as I will not flip this one, once again roll roll roll to be sure that the carbon is wet

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The first layer of FG is put in place on the veneer and the peelply used as hinging material is also put in place to check if it is in the right position

Then wet wit epoxy and CC, I use the roller for countours

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Then i just swap the panel in the bag, work great

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First panel get out at 1080g, quite happy of the weight

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Stéphane

[ARUP]

Nice! The weight is low.I want to see the same weight for the other. lol Are you going to paint or put film on them?

[French1]

Mike

I let you judge :

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[ARUP]

What??? The scale doesn't measure fractions of a gram? lol Stéphane- that is pretty impressive!

[stevekremer]

Pretty consistent Stephane. Getting the process down!

Steve K

[CoolCanuck]

Stéphane, nicely done! Looking good. Just the info and the push I needed to get off my butt and start planning my wings. I still have a 1:3,5 Discus B and ASW24 fuselage kicking around from when I was fabricating & selling these with a couple of club-buddies back in Germany during the late 80's / early 90's. They're anxious to finally take flight.

Which veneer are you using and where did you get it? Saw in your "Rebuild thread" that you had some 0,6mm thick long stuff... any left?

Matthias

[French1]

Let me check what I have left, veneer is obeche

[CoolCanuck]

Thanks Stéphane, much appreciated.

[French1]

After a great flying season, let resume operations for the building season,

today on the menu, wing joiner tube for the fuselage, same technique, parchment paper (2 turns) hold in place with pieces of tape on the edge. Stick glue to adhere the 2.3oz glass on the parchment paper, and roll roll with epoxy....

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[French1]

New canopy is in, thank Dennis, that was a good move to buy these canopies from you...

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[French1]

taking advantage of the time off for thanksgiving in order to move ahead on the ventus.

Joiner tube is in place, just making headway with the global geometry of the wings and the fuse, incidence pin are now in and curing.

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I couldn't resist to the temptation of fitting the tips to look how does she look like...

one world, P R E T T Y !

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Happy thanksgiving all!

[ARUP]

Yessir... that is going to be a very pretty sailplane!

[gunny11]

Agreed with what ARUP typed

[lenb]

Looks like you need a longer sanding block for the LE