07-20-2022, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill
Laser cutting parts out of foam board and hot gluing them together has been a thing in the R/C aircraft scene.
Bill
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I know; so has been (and is) "glassing" foam wing, tail, and fuselage 'cores' (including with thin-gauge carbon or Kevlar cloth and 'foam-friendly' epoxy, instead of with glass cloth; this is done with some full-size homebuilt aircraft too, such as Burt Rutan's VariEze, Quickie, Q2, and Solitaire homebuilt canard airplanes and sailplanes). I was thinking in terms of a model hand-launched (and model rocket B/G) glider that--like the original model shown in G. Harry Stine's "Handbook of Model Rocketry"--would be molded, out of EPO or EPP expanded foam, like (to give but one example, see: https://dream-flight.com/ ) Dream-Flight's R/C gliders.
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