68 kg Aircraft

[BrendAn]

26 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Not if my Dogs have a say in it. ( Plus the Booby traps.)  Nev

a fresh lamb shank each will keep the dogs quiet.

[Reynard]

The gliding fraternity are big on sealing airframe gaps. There are specialist sealing tapes for the really serious - they are a tad more elastic than say, electrical tape, and don’t leave a residue.  There are also leading edge tapes for those that choose to fly off gravel strips and through locust plagues.

[facthunter]

The Best gliders are at the Peak of Aerodynamic efficiency and carry ballast (water) to glide faster and are non powered (in the Pure form). Of course Gap sealing improves  L/D ratio (at a cost). Nev

[nomadpete]

17 hours ago, facthunter said:

Where  the duck does the Tape go?  Nev

Goes around the horizontal stab.... eventually.

[facthunter]

Ah, the Ducking & Weaving bit. Warp and what's Weft. Nev

[red750]

Wikipedia description of Cotton duck. 

 

Cotton duck (from Dutch: doek, meaning "cloth"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. Duck canvas is more tightly woven than plain canvas. There is also linen duck, which is less often used.

Cotton duck is used in a wide range of applications, from sneakers to painting canvases to tents to sandbags.

 

Historically, white untwilled cotton or linen fabric uniforms of this name were worn by British and French soldiers serving in the tropics.

 

Duck fabric is woven with two yarns together in the warp and a single yarn in the weft.

 

Duct tape or duck tape is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene. A variety of constructions exist using different backings and adhesives, and the term "duct tape" has been genericized to refer to all of them. A variation is heat-resistant foil tape useful for sealing heating and cooling ducts, produced because standard duct tape fails when used on heating ducts.

 

[facthunter]

I notice that has French Letters on the Label. and there's a Picture of a Cannard, which Looks like Huey Louey or Dewey. Interesting about the extra strength One way. Same with Marine Ply I believe.  Nev

[440032]

DUCT or DUCK, pffftttt.

It's just not worth getting your feathers ruffled over.

[facthunter]

I could NEVER work out what you did with the DUCK. Maybe I will find out Next Quakker Night? I canardly wait. There's LOTS of them land on My New DAM. The OLD one re furbished. 6 Meters deep In the Middle.  Nev