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From: randy echtinaw <rjechtinaw@toast.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: composite / adapter
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:04:10 -0500

     I am eventually going to have to make tapered, compound curved  
fairings to fit between my sliding canopy rails and the coaming that  
will be attached to and slide with the canopy. (I am installing the  
RX4 engine in a ackro biplane) Nuclear physics and composites are a  
couple of my weaker subjects so please give me all the help you can  
think up. I have glassed some small fairings and wing butt's but  
nothing complicated. I would like light weight, strong and to be able  
to make them look as much like metal as possible. I am assuming foam  
fillers covered with modeling clay for the final shape and covered  
with a couple coats of spray release agents before the layup. I am  
considering carbon fiber for strength, weight and thickness but know  
nothing about it. If whatever I use works well I will probably do the  
canopy to turtle deck fairing with it also.
     Please forward all the possible info starting with the bulk  
filler materials right through filling the finished cloth weave to  
look like metal. Remember, I am an empty sponge here :))

Also, I have a brand new, never used, engine stand to rotary engine  
adapter from Pineapple Racing. $63.10 new I would like $40 plus  
shipping. rjechtinaw(at)toast.net
Thank you,
Randy