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Old 01-03-2014, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Ironnerd
Dude! Thanks for that. Good read, and those models were so sweet.
You're most welcome! Your posting about your lifting body fleet inspired me to post the article about Wallis Rigby. I love his aesthetic sense. His semi-monocoque paper and bristol board construction method (a load-bearing paper outer skin with a few internal bracing elements, which his "Jetex Javelin" model plane utilized) might also work for the X-24 "Bug"- and HL-20-type lifting bodies, increasing their strength and stiffness with little added weight.
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