This one being built at present is to our old 'Spitfire' singlefin design from 1995.Construction is 4 layers of 3mm paulownia glassed with dark blue woven and felted NewZealand wool and epoxy, several fairing coats have been applied and sanded in between coats. At one coat a day it's long process
Here's the planshape for some single foiled volan glass spitfire quad fins which will be arriving next month . Some will be used in quad fin setups, other as tunnel fin plus two sidebite setups ( very similar to the quad with the addition of more tail lift and less drag)
This is an early epoxy/glass/graphite spitfire fin from 1995, mounted on a flexible 1.5" thick 18" wide balsa parallel profile board, a slick little tuberider now somewhere in Brazil, shown here with Rich in Japan.
Here's the planshape for some single foiled volan glass spitfire quad fins which will be arriving next month . Some will be used in quad fin setups, other as tunnel fin plus two sidebite setups ( very similar to the quad with the addition of more tail lift and less drag)
This is an early epoxy/glass/graphite spitfire fin from 1995, mounted on a flexible 1.5" thick 18" wide balsa parallel profile board, a slick little tuberider now somewhere in Brazil, shown here with Rich in Japan.
