Hi,

I planning to build an airship that will have a "skeleton structure" made up by carbon fiber that is very similar to this: Link to picture
(structure is made up of a couple of round circles with girders/beams on the side crossing the circles.

diameter of circles is estimated to aprox 500mm and totalt length is about 2500mm.
I'm thinking of aprox 3 circles and 8 beams for the construction.

Maximum load on the structure (from motors or cargo) should not exceed 1kg.

I was planning to use the carbon fiber strip for both circles and beams. Can someone please give some advice to questions below:

1. Any general thought about this? This will be my first carbon fiber project.

2. I would like to keep weight to an absolute minumum, can you please advice on what size of carbon fiber strip you recomend?

3. Can you please confirm that the strips are flexibel enought to make circles from?

4. What would the best way we to bond circles (and beams to circles)? Glue? Could small holes be drilled and bonding be made via some kind av small fastner (blind?). The later would be nice if the construction needs to be changed or disassembled during construction.


Thanks in advance.

BR
Jakob