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6 January 2010, 05:16 PM
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PLEASE HELP!! Need to know what bamboo to get!
The title says it all.I need to know the type of bamboo that was commonly used for early aircraft.
Please,I want to build this aircraft but can't do anything until I find the proper seeds 
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8 January 2010, 06:34 AM
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Your kit will include the following 100 bamboo seeds for spars and struts!  20 Spruce seeds for ribs, formers, blocking ! 4 rubber plant seeds. Make your own tires, belts, gas lines!  300 Flax seeds. Weave your own linen coverings and contol cables! 1000 Corn seeds. Make your own environmentally friendly ethanol.  Act today! Limited to the first 100 callers.  Call withing 30 minutes and get 12 free potato plants for making some kickapoo joy juice or hopping up your ethanol fuel!  Just kidding Willi. Caught me in a silly mood.
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8 January 2010, 05:29 PM
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Very funny,anyway Im still stuck and want to get my flying contraption out of the blueprints!
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16 January 2010, 05:22 PM
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The species of bamboo probably won't matter as much as whether it's properly dry, whether it's cracked or warped.
Bear in mind that most replicas of bamboo aircraft use some sort of metal tubing, painted to look good. Since material data was less available then anyway, the bamboo of choice was most likely whatever was available. |
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28 January 2010, 10:35 AM
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Re Bamboo for aircraft construction
Early aircraft including the Wright brothers often used bamboo in parts of the construction. In those days I suspect that the bamboo was either as poles or split from large diameter bamboo (some species can grow to 150mm diameter with 12mm wall thickness)
These days bamboo is used as a construction material but it is splitt and re-bonded with phenolic resin to form boards, plywood, roofing material and floor boards. It is a remarkable material and can even be used to make cloth for pillows and sheets!.....so you could in theory cover your aircraft as well. Bamboo floor boards are about 940mm long x 90mm wide and 15mm thick. The material saws and machines very well and is very strong, it has about the same density as sitca spruce. I am building a ULF-1 glider (1976 design by Dieter Reich) and using bamboo material for many parts of the construction. It es very important to check the strength of the material and look for voids in this "engineered" material......I was going to say wood but that is incorrect it is of course GRASS! Another point is to use the correct adhesive not everything will stick to bamboo. If anyone has any information here I would like to know Best regards to all, Richard |
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