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- Super Cub, Tiger Moth 400, Mini-Pulse
- Super Cub, Tiger Moth 400, Mini-Pulse
- Super Cub, Tiger Moth 400, Mini-Pulse
- Mini-Pulse
- Tiger Moth 400
- Mike and his Focke Wulf
- Lloyd's P-51 Mustang
- Ugly Stick
- Yak 54
- Yak 54
- Yak 54
- Lloyd and his P-51 (this is his small one)
- Here is the box
- Here is the box
- The Components
- Hinging the ailerons
- Setting up the cabanes
- Setting up the cabanes
- Hinging the elevator
- Hinging the ailerons
- Hinging the elevator
- The carbon fiber control horns
- Setting up rudder and rear landing gear (pull/pull control horns for rudder)
- Finishing landing gear
- Installing control horns
- Elevator servo and linkage
- Aileron servo and linkage
- Rudder linkage (pull/pull)
- Rudder servo and linkage
- Mounting the motor - installed blind nuts in back of firewall
- The motor and spinner
- Test fitting the cowl
- One of the landing gear assemblies (carbon fiber landing gear)
- Landing gear and wheel pants
- Pulling servo cables through formers using a "grabber"
- Partially attached landing gear
- Marking cowl position
- Positioning cowl
- Final holes for cowl
- Screwing on the wing struts
- Carbon fiber wing tubes
- Getting there
- Getting the electronics into place
- Painting the cockpit trim
- Using a Whataburger cup for the instrument panel backing
- Gluing instrument panel backing after shaping backing with heat gun
- Cockpit pieces (inkjet printer on regular paper)
- Gluing the instrument panel with hot melt glue
- Instrument panel in position
- Cockpit put in place
- Cockpit (blurry sorry)
- Extended battery tray more aft with basswood - to shift Center of Gravity
- Cockpit
- Its done! All ready for maiden flight
- Preparing the work area
- Obligatory box shot
- Pile of wood and some plans
- Labeling the parts and checking off the parts list
- Labeling the wood (all parts checked off list)
- Pinning down the rear stab plans
- Not much to the rear stab
- Pinned down the fuselage plans - test fitting some parts
- Doublers are already glued on, now I'm lining up the first formers
- Got the firewall in place, gluing both sides of fuselage together
- Formers in place all along the fuse
- Top and bottom decking glued in
- Getting the top formers lined up, these support the stringers
- Top formers glued in
- Aft stringers glued in
- Sanding the stringers to even them up on the rear cockpit wall
- Forward stringers glued in
- Cutting, bending, forming, and gluing the cockpit into place
- Cut and glue the back wall for the cockpit, installed the motor mount
- YaY! Sanding
- Pinning down the plans for the Left Wing
- Pinning down the bottom main spar and the bottom trailing edge piece
- W2 Rib versus W3 Rib
- Test fitting rib 2
- Installing W3 ribs
- W1 and W2 in place. Sheer web piece is angled; making it easy to set W1 at the correct slant angle
- More measuring
- Glued my finger to the rib - ouch
- Cutting my finger away
- Only lost a little skin
- All ribs, top and bottom spar, turbulators, leading edge, and trailing edges in place.
- Getting the sheer webs in place
- Removed the wing from the plans. Ready for bottom center sheeting
- Cutting the sheeting while its on the plan
- Gluing the sheeting into place
- Gluing the sheeting into place
- Built up right wing. This went quickly; maybe 15 minutes. Ready for sheer webbing.
- Preparing to join the wings. Sanded the spars, turbulators, leading and trailing edges flush with W1 Rib
- Cutting a slot for the dihedral wing brace
- Filing just a little at a time and test fitting. Going slow to ensure a snug fit
- Wings joined and clamped. Left wing is flat on the building board, right wing is propped up 3 3/4 inches
- Wings joined and clamped. Left wing is flat on the building board, right wing is propped up 3 3/4 inches
- Wings joined and clamped. Left wing is flat on the building board, right wing is propped up 3 3/4 inches
- Wings joined and clamped. Left wing is flat on the building board, right wing is propped up 3 3/4 inches
- Cutting the fuselage to make room for the horizontal stabilizer
- Material removed, slot ready for sanding to ensure even fit