REFLECTOR: Need some advice/measurements

[Reiff Lorenz]

Clayton,

It sounds like you're going to be able to clear your opening. Since you asked, I went and measured my XL-RG. I'll post the dimensions here for posterity.

>From aft strake-tip to aft strake-tip it measured 141 3/4 inches. My strakes are 8  5/16" tall at that point. The plane will be a few inches wider toward the front of the strakes. The outboard edge of the strakes is 90 degrees to the main spar, but the spar is angled a few degrees aft on each side, so the strake tips angle out a few degrees. The outboard side of the strake is 18 ½ inches long. My trig is rusty (and I don't know the spar angle) so I'm not sure how much the distance widens from the aft strake-tip to the forward strake-tip.

Hope this helps.

Reiff Lorenz, Dayton, OH
Velocity XL-RG, 38% complete
Currently working on: Gluing the cowls together and then cutting them apart.


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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Clayton Chase
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:16 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Need some advice/measurements

I'd like to mount the engine in the basement although I'm not so sure how much I want to run it in there even if I have a heat-capable exhaust pipe running outside.   The nearest hangar I can afford that I could do any work on the plane is about 50 minutes away, so I want to do everything I can at home before I move the project.

I called the factory and they say that it's exactly 12' wide and that the main spar height plus perhaps 1/4" will be the vertical dimension I need to worry about and it's less than 14", so with that and some minor trigonometry I determined that I will be just fine.   I'd be able to get it through my 7' high ceiling and 11' 1" width passage even if the spar was 12' 6" long.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Brian Michalk <michalk at awpi.com<mailto:michalk at awpi.com>> wrote:
How complete are you going to go in the basement?  Are you going to mount the engine in the basement?

Ask the factory if there is a layup plan that will allow you to glass in the spar after the firewall and fuselage has been built.  You'd be building strakes and baffles and spar after moving out of the basement.

On 11/14/2012 12:33 PM, Clayton Chase wrote:
Hi, all.   The plans for my basement modification took a sad turn today, the width of my opening to get the plane past one post has to be shrunk from 12' to 11' 1".   The height there is 7'.    Am I going to run into problems?

Can someone tell me to the nearest 1/2" how wide the fueselage and strakes are at the widest point?    How high are the ends of the strakes?   I'm assuming they are about 14" high but don't know exactly.

Using several estimated heights of the strakes:
For 10" high I can handle a length of 12' 8.2"
For 14" high, I can only get a length of 12' 6.2"
For 18" high I can only a length of 12' 4.5" through

This is cutting it a LOT closer than I like.




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