Looks like y'all had a great time. Very good to chat with everyone, hope all safe travels. Looks like a front will be moving through Tuesday night. Al..send some photos of your project when you can.

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Just getting a good start! More to show up by Saturday! The stage and dance floor and tables for the Vance 80 year anniversary tonight (Friday)! I’ll be bustin’ mah “groove” tonight for

We’re a week away from the best Canard Fly-In ever! Rough River Canard Fly-in, September 24 – 26. Several of us will be there on the 22nd and launchingformation sorties that day and through the

Thanks for the much needed update Keith! Tell Dave D. to freakin' call me. Have a great time everyone.

Good morning everyone, Just going through my emails I noticed there was not a showing of those who arrived yesterday. So I’ll do my best here. Flying in were: Kevin Boddicker with his great TriQ

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Ha-ha! Touche! Yes, of course you are right. Not owning a -18°C freezer, I was thinking of room temperature cure low-vacuum consolidation to achieve ~50% resin content, not prepreg…. I can’t wait

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Wow. All the cool kids came early! See you all tomorrow Cheers, Jay

You need to move out here, Jerry ;-) Cheers, Jay

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Even if I was still planning to be at FOD, it wouldn’t have happened. Weather!!! Can’t get out and wouldn’t have be able to get back. There is always next year. Everybody, get your

That may all be true, but the nature of composite aircraft is that they are vastly overbuilt simply because building to the strength requirements alone yields a structure that is too fragile -- too

Flax is inferior to highly-crystalline cellulose fiber for exactly the reasons mentioned below. Highly-crystalline cellulose fiber is nearly equivalent to E-glass in all respects except weight --

No thanks. This is not at all a critical design. Since it is a wet wing I have had to add an extra ply that is completely redundant and WAY overbuilds the structure. Also the LS-1 wing is a little

Nice site, decent data. But most applications look mostly cosmetic and/or low loaded. I think you are pioneering with the material, make really sure that you are safe! Like with those hot/wet

I've looked at all of those and am well along. The design is frozen. This is my 9th homebuilt (I'm old).

If you are building a Quickie with the LS1 canard, you may want to check out Waddlow. He has a process of building without using the carbon spars.  Also check out Dragonfly airplanes, they have

It seems to be working fine for me: https://lingrove.com/ekoa-prepregs