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Create fast, accurate ribs – Stacking and shaping makes it easy!
When building a plane from plans, one of the first tasks is to make the ribs. For this task, I’m making 16 ribs for each wing of a biplane out of 1/16-inch-thick balsa. These ribs are kind of “fat” and symmetrical. When I first started making ribs, I would cut each rib and try to shape it by hand. This was a daunting task and lot of work, and the ribs usually had quite a...
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