Ik heb de tekeningen van de Watts New ook gekocht, en ga die bouwen met jouw diagonale ribben en capstrips er in. De I-profiel constructie heb ik hem ook gevraagd na bestudering van de tekening, waarop hij inderdaad bevestigend antwoordde. Ik heb hem ook gevraagd over glas vs carbon voor de staander in het I-profiel. Daarop gaf hij aan dat hij die constructie al jaren gebruikt en er op dat punt nooit schade is ontstaan tgv carbon in de ligger, terwijl het toestel (3,1m) met draaiende motor (tgv storing in regelaar) en dito hoge snelheid enorm op zn donder heeft gehad:
"In respect to the view as to the strength of the carbon shear web over the woven glass cloth method, there is more flex on the carbon or the glass cloth method, than on the standard moulded models that I have had experience of over the years.
Have used this method over some 12 years now, with no failures of the wing. When I was first setting the Watts New up a couple of years back, for crow breaking, I had the ailerons deflecting up to early. This coupled to the speed on one approach caused the wing to flew violently down into anhedral, but did not result in any damage.
As an add on to the above, another more frightening incident some 8 years, endorses this. I made an extended wing for the Watts Up model that you maybe aware of. This was 3.1 metres span and used the carbon shear web between 10X3mm spruce spars. One evening whilst sport flying the altimeter switch, failed for some reason, which caused me to be unable to switch the motor off!!!!!!!!!
The model became almost uncontrollable due to the speed being such that in trying to get it down made the speed build up even more. This led to the wing tip let breaking off, which made flying even more difficult, as you can imagine. I finally managed to land it OK, with the motor smoking away, after the BEC cut in. Think this exposed the construction of this type to stresses far and away greater than would be experienced under normal flying."