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Russell Kent wrote:

So would it be accurate to describe it as a torus ("donut" for you non-math
people out there) with a airfoil-shaped cross section?  If so, how was it
fabricated?

Russell Kent

NC lathe with circular interpolation for all you NC programmers
out there. Actually I am not exactly  sure what they call it in
NC lathe speak :-) The NC lathe programmer will know how
to do it if you give him the coords. John Lynch came up
with this at the Santa Paula skunk works and he just choose
your average 6300 series airfoils.

Paul Lamar
 
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