Justa versawing
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Introduction
The Versawing is a design for a foam-based airplane by the guys from FliteTest.com who have a great [channel].
Like many of their [plans] they are available for free from their site.
A friend (Amraem) has purchased a physical cut-out of the foam-sheets from their site and this has enabled me (Justa) to trace his material to prevent having to print out all the seperate sections on pieces of A4 and tape them together.
The intention is to produce a (slightly) modified version of the VersaWing that allows it to be flown as a 'pusher' instead of the 'puller' design shown to the left.
Progress
2015-05-11
First preparations
I've gone and traced the outlines of the paper-trace model that I had produced; reproducing them on a sheet of 3mm Triplex. Using a bandsaw, a drill, a dremel and some files, the resulting templates are shown to the left.
From these templates, a first cut-out version of all the parts for one side of the plane (left wing) have been produced. As far as I can make out, producing a full plane should be as simple as reproducing the same parts, but then mirrored (for the wing-top and wing-bottom, that is.)
Note that simply producing the same materials again *should* in fact result in the correct sheets, too.
Considerations
Used material is 'FoamBoard', black, 5mm, acquired from [Van Beek art-supplies].A sheet of 70x100CM will almost *exactly* be enough to produce *one* set of wings, spars and wing-tips.
From my private stash, I still have 3.5 boards left after cutting the materials for one left wing.
It's become clear that it is greatly recommended to have a very sharp and pointy (straight-edged) knife available, like the one shown in the picture to the left. The horizontal slits and grooves are no more than 5mm wide in parts; making manipulation with an 'exacto-knife' difficult at best.
So far, the foam-board material proves to be very stiff and forgiving; even without having used any tape to strenghten it. The paper-layer is subject to moisture-damage, however, and will need to be protected/covered in some manner. Also, the question is whether the inner foam-layer is compatible with 'regular glues' such as Bison Tix, etc. If not, special styrofoam-compatible glues will need to be investigated.
Future plans
The [kwantum] seems to have a perfect [foam-based material] available in the form of insulating under-floor material.
These sheets are 60x85.6CM large and 5mm thick and come in a pack of 19 per €29,- (€1.53/sheet)
If careful, you might *just* fit the parts of one aircraft per sheet.
