I built a few Dumas kits, including a little flying rc conversion of their 16" Peashooter. They give you light wood, but that's often pretty much it, from my experiences and what I hear. It's not always quality light wood, just light.jpuke wrote:I already gave up on this project. The wood was so hard and terrible to cut out (I split three formers out of three that I tried to cut) that I went and bought a Dumas 17.5" span P-47. The laser cutting is so nice! I'll have to get a Guillows laser cut at some point.
As for light wood, when I got my Guillows P47, one side of the fuse formers were lighter than any balsa I had ever come across. Not good light wood either though. Too bad the other half was heavy wood. I was looking at the two sheets, both at the opposite ends of the weight spectrum thinking, "now what am I going to do with this".
If they had given me all the formers with this light wood, I could have had a much lighter plane. It would be nice if the part sheets were matched, whether heavy or light. If they were both heavy, then one could just sand them both thinner and lighter, while still being strong. I had to laminate across the formers with stringers, as the light formers were too weak to even think about using for what I planned on doing. I'm sure the little P47 should fly well with rubber power. The little Peashooter easily hauls around 80 gms or so, with rud/elev controls.
