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Useful Resources for Carbon Dragon Builders

  • Hits: 1837
    Jim Marske's marskeaircraft.com

    Buy a copy of Jim Marske's Composite Design Manual - essential reading if you intend to build using composite materials.

  • Hits: 1377
    Carbon Rod

    NOTE: If you find a new source, please let me know by email and I will add it here

    Here is a list of possible sources of continuous length pultruded carbon fibre:

    Continuous length pultruded carbon strip - 1x10mm, 2x12, 3x12, 3x15, 4x20 and many other sizes!
    https://cacomposites.com/sheets-strips/pultruded-carbon-fiber-strip/

    Possible long lengths on request:
    http://rbjplastics.com/standard-profiles/carbon-fibre-strip.html

    https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/pultrusion-carbon-fiber-strips.html

    http://www.marskeaircraft.com/carbon-rod-pricing.html

    https://www.dpp-pultrusion.com/en/the-product-micro-pultrusion-products/standard-pultrusion-sections-in-carbon-epoxy/

    https://www.dpp-pultrusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DPP-specification-sheet-2019.pdf

    Dongguan Juli Composite Technologies, Ltd;
    Custom sizes and lengths of pultruded carbon fiber – great service, low, low prices
    https://carbonfibertech.en.alibaba.com/company_profile.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.0.0.5a394bf958zl8J#top-nav-bar

  • Hits: 1881
    Mylar film and 3M bonding tape (Home Built Airplanes)

    Search results for "Mlyar" on the Home Built Airplanes forum.

  • Hits: 1371
    Ceconite Covering System
  • Hits: 1145
    Oratex Covering System
  • Hits: 1191
    Gooseneck Flexible Tubing

    Used in most sailpanes to hold the microphone for the radio in just the right location by the pilot's head.

  • Hits: 1075
    Austrialpin - Quick Release Buckles & Carabiners
  • Hits: 1291
    Carbon Fiber Basics: An easy to understand guide
  • Hits: 1099
    Comparison of the mechanical properties of the carbon fibers
  • Hits: 1487
    FAA Aircraft Handbooks & Manuals

    FAA Aircraft Weight & Balance Handbook

    FAA Amateur-built Aircraft & Ultralight Flight Testing Handbook

    FAA Glider Flying Handbook (& Errata supplement)

  • Hits: 1497
    The Soaring Society of America
  • Hits: 1575
    FAA Basic Glider Criteria Handbook
  • Hits: 1124
    Turnbuckles - for tensioning control cables

    These are the smallest / lightest turnbuckles I could find. The Carbon Dragon needs 5 (or 6!)

    • 2 x for the rudder cables
    • 2 x for the elevator cables
    • 1 x for the flaperon angle adjuster (...or you can use 2!)
  • Hits: 742
    Impact Absorbing Foam - Seats

    CONFOR® Foam offers a unique combination of seemingly conflicting properties that are ideal for comfort management and protective padding applications. These urethane foams soften and conform when exposed to warmth, giving gentle, virtually pressure-free support. When the foams take a direct blow, however, their high energy-absorption characteristics enable them to absorb up to 97 percent of an impact.

  • Hits: 1060
    Stewart Systems - Wing covering fabric & paints

    Super Flight 104 1.8oz/sq-yd fabric - EkoClean - EkoBond - EkoPrime - EkoPoly - Heating Irons & other tools required for covering a wing.

  • Hits: 449
    AN Hardware Specification Tool (DarkAero)

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