Just a thought on peel ply for what its worth. Peel ply is not the great short cut it may seem. When looked at carefully, although giving a nice pattern without tack, the actual surface in the pattern is smooth. A cured resin can only be bonded with a mechanical bond by keying in which it does...
Billyg,
I rebuilt a chev deisel but first looked into all this. Someone rudely suggested to me that GM seem to have a habit of building granades, then progressively improving them to become very good engines. THey did this with the 5.7 which was just rubbish in my humble opinion in 1979...
Hi,
what a huge question. Ihave spent 7 years on this area and done several pilots measuring and calculating this. You are right, it is a matter of material, cellulose, but first is it CO2 or C that you sequester - there a molecular weight conversion there.
The main issues relate to accurate...
Have you looked at slotted flaps or even a custom wing - there are some for various kit planes like the dedalius wing for the zenair etc that add slotted flaps, air pressure activated slats which drop stall dramatically, but the cruise is not real high - but then you didnt say what your criteria...
probably a bit late now but I buy lots of T300 T700 etc c/f epoxy prepreg. IT TorayCo fabric with the prepreggers resins system.
What is the N5208? and why that resin system? I think it may be Newport Resins system
