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Sheet metal work is killing me. Any suggestions about how to go about easily forming the curved piece in the middle?
I'm sort of getting there by wrapping it around a 2" pipe and a small piece of aluminum. But bending a larger piece (the ailerons are 60" long) is not going to work this way. If you look at the attached rib drawing you will see that there is more of a bend than Marquart drew in Section D-D. And 2024-T3 is stiff and has tons of spring back.
I'm sort of getting there by wrapping it around a 2" pipe and a small piece of aluminum. But bending a larger piece (the ailerons are 60" long) is not going to work this way. If you look at the attached rib drawing you will see that there is more of a bend than Marquart drew in Section D-D. And 2024-T3 is stiff and has tons of spring back.
