02-14-2017, 03:23 AM
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Master Modeler
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Irvine
There are built-up designs that modern laser cutting makes possible that airplane makers have been doing for decades with stringers and whatever the other thing is called.
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They--the "across-the-fuselage" bulkheads in balsa-and-tissue (and in "planked-balsa") model airplanes, model sailplanes, and (in the few that have been built) model zeppelins--are called formers; the formers and the nose-to-tail stringers comprise the framework. In many (most?) "planked-balsa" models, balsa skin strips are used instead of stringers, as in a wooden boat hull, and the skin strips (together with the formers) create a semi-monocoque structure, which would lend itself to laser-cutting for such rocket nose cones.
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