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I have the TERF CD and that means I have the drawing for the control horn. Now for the problem..... There is nothing on the drawing to use for scale. The only dimentions are for the holes and I do not want to use them as a reference. I need to know the length of the horn and maybe a width so I can be sure to have the correct scale. Any and all help would be great. I will be sure to redraw the parts and post them for all as an ACAD file and Solidworks file.

I get all my airfoil DWG files from this site. http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/coord_dwgFmt/airfoils_dwg_format/ I think the standard size for all the airfoil files is 12" I scale them as required. I saved almost all of the files to a folder so that I would always have them. Robert New 1/3rd owner of an Aerocanard. )

I never did answer the part about sharing. I will share my files as they are completed. I hope they will be reviewed by others and I will make changes as required. I did have this idea to create a cad file of all the templates so that anyone could take/send them to someone with a laser cutter. The cuts would be very smooth and very accurate. It's an idea I will pursue as time allows.

This is the third time trying to reply...... I think I have it now. The numbers for the head rest came from page 8-1. Like I said, close is OK for building but it does not work for modeling. Examples: The small base is 2.7" x 6.9" it models better at 2.7" x 6.6" The side pieces are 12.7" tall, they work better if 13.3". I will attempt to add several pictures. Solidworks allows me to save views as JPG's. I do plan to start a folder on the club web page for this project. The UAV with the tube fusalage at one time did have a camera in the nose with a pan and tilt. Last May I left the UAV lab and went to the Materials lab where my experience in composites was needed. I now do rapid prototyping and experimental fabrication of composites. Maybe some day I will do the research to see if the Long-EZ is better built with S-Glass like 6781 rather than the BID in use today. Now for the pictures... The first should show the parts assembled as per page 8-1. The second with the new adjusted dimensions, and the third after smoothing all the surfaces. I still need to figure out how to offset the surface to show the glass build up. Also, I have attached a shot of the rear bulkhead.

I now have disk #1 of the TERF collection. Rather than drawing the plans at 40-45% I have started to draw the plane at full-scale using the templates and the CD as reference. Then I can simply use the scale command to generate the size of plane I finally decide on. Along with doing the plans in AutoCad I was also going to model the plane in Solidworks. Since it looked simple I decided to model the head rest last night. Each part was modeled in 3-D then I tried to make an assembly of the parts. To my surprise the parts were close but not close enough. The sides of the head rest were short, the small rectangles on the sides were much longer than required, and the angles that make up the back part of the head rest were off a bit. All is fine if you are building the full scale since much of the construction is "Shape as Shown". For modeling on the computer it is not enough. I should , when done have very accurate drawings of parts as they actually should be made. Once the weather breaks I will be preping my shop for another plane to join the fleet. Anyone interested in my fleet can check out my models at http://www.hcrcm.com/gallery/ I'm Robert, so you can see all thefun I have been having for the last 30+years. I can not wait to all the "Open-EZ" to the photo page.

Strange, I do not have access to ebay here at work (Army Research Lab, APG Maryland). I will have to check when I get home. I placed the first bid at $150. The last time I checked it was at $155 and due to end this weekend. There must be a second auction running.

Thanks for the info. My intrest is in building a very scale and accurate 40% maybe 45% R/C model. I was willing to spend a little money for the info I need to generate the plans. Based on the reply, the cost of the plans will be greater than all the materials to assemble the model. I do have the TERF CD on the way and I have merged my old ACAD drawings (generated from a Rutan 3-view) with the long nose drawings from the WEB. I feel better knowing I should have all the info I need to build the model. I will of course call it an Open-EZ

It appears that I will have to fight for a set of plans on ebay. What is a fair market price? The current bid is at $155.00 as of 7 March 07. Thanks,