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[Pistolera]

MattyMatt;17660 wrote: BINGO! Biggest sponsor by far. WORK!



No pay, no play. Lol.

Some day, when you're old and wise...err....gray....you get retarded....ooops....retired!

 

[Do-rag]

Pistolera;18902 wrote: Some day, when you're old and wise...err....gray....you get retarded....ooops....retired!

I think that I am looking forward to that day.

 

[Snapasaurus]

Big fan of biplanes, watching the progress, good luck Matt.

 

[MattyMatt]

Ok, getting back on track slowly. 

Lower wings are aligned to the tail of the fuse and the incidence is set. The fuse was straight and no adjustments were needed.  

There re is about an 1/8 of an inch gap the last third of where the root rib meets the fuse, so I'll add some wood to keep the wing from shifting. 

 

[Do-rag]

Any more progress @MattyMatt; ?

 

[MattyMatt]

I've been working on the fuse slowly the last few weeks.  The bottom stringers are completed; and the bottom wing incidence and alignment is set.  The wing tube is glued in and there was a gap on the back of both root ribs.  I used some plastic against the fuse and some hysol on the root rib to eliminate the gap.  This is important to keep the wings from moving around during flight.

 

Last night i started the top of the fuse, which is a simple former and stringer construction.  The canopy is in place to align the front former and the turtle deck former angle.

 

Next is to glue on the vertical stabilizer and finish the turtle deck stringers.  

 

 

 

 

[MattyMatt]

 

 

 

 

[Jetpainter]

Looking good, glad to see your back at it.

 

[MattyMatt]

 

This evening I used a router to round all the stab leading and trailing edges. 

 

Then in aligned the verticle stab, and glued it in place. 

 

[MattyMatt]