1/3.3 Ventus 3

[lenb]

Looks like you need a longer sanding block for the LE

[gunny11]

Agreed with what ARUP typed

[ARUP]

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

[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!

[French1]

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

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[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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[CoolCanuck]

Thanks Stéphane, much appreciated.

[French1]

Let me check what I have left, veneer is obeche

[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

[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

[French1]

Mike

I let you judge :

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[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]

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

[French1]

Thank you guys, I have learned from watching some of you and I am more than glad sharing my practices.

Journey of the tips is over for now, just pulled the right tip of the bag this afternoon and the finish is quite good, including the rolled LE

Weight is dead on (well 1g off to be exact)

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Really like this wing platform, so unique, a lot of back swept on this tips

I carried on the journey with the center panels, one tonight and the last one tomorrow, we should be done with the wing bagging on monday

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