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My Flamingo is progressing slowly, but a couple of points which might help other builders: 1. When the length of each former is measured with a flexible ruler, it is clear that it is necessary to taper each plank from F4 back to F5 and also forward to F1, with the taper being most pronounced between F2 and F1. At first I started shaping the planks by sanding the edges to avoid gaps between them, which was time consuming and boring due to the slow progress. Being a lazy blighter, I tried soaking the 9mm ply strips overnight with a damp or wet towel. This not only makes the planks much more pliable and easier to fit, but also makes it possible to shape them much more quickly with a razor plane to get them to fit exactly to the shape of the adjacent plank. It also makes it possible to pin them to the formers with large T pins using a small hammer. 2. The tailplane gave me some trouble. I weighed down the bottom sheet with my usual lead weights along the back edge and also the front edge with tailplane on the jigs and left it overnight. In the morning I found it looking a little odd: it was a flat 'W' shape! I started again by salvaging the formers and laid them out. I measured the height of each former at the front and rear and planed a taper on the bottom of the the 6mm rear beam from T2 to T8 and for the false leading edge. Having stuck the formers to the rear 6mm upside down beam and then added the top sheet by glueing it to the rear beam and glued each former from their mid points back to the to the rear. When the glue had dried, I then glued the sheet to the formers and the false leading edge. I cut the bottom sheet in two, and repeated the glueing as above, clamping first at the back and then when the glue had dried, glueing and clamping it to the false leading edge. When both sides were done, the tailplane was perfectly straight without the previous distortion. Hope this helps, William

Hi Peter, I've been following your build, and am delighted to see you have completed a successful maiden flight. I've nearly completed the fuselage structure of mine before starting on the filling and sheeting. I notice from an earlier post that you added some lead to the nose before covering it with filler. How much (weight) did you add, and did you have to add any more weight to the nose to balance the glider before flying it? Best wishes, William

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Merry Christmas everybody, and wishing you all a covid free new year.

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Oh dear! Yet another one: Mr. Manfred Fasel has sent me an email to ask me to contact him urgently about the delivery of my new ATM card. The reply address is dodgy, @list.ru I shan't be be replying to him.

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Andy, Please advise if this webinar will be available for viewing at a later date? Whilst I would like to attend, I can't tonight. William

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Yet another one: message received from DPD regarding a parcel delivery with an incomplete delivery address. I couldn't remember if I had ordered anything (it's an age thing!). The odd thing was it was sent at 02:45 this morning demanding that I respond before 5th December or the parcel would be returned to the sender. It then required me to fill out a Google registration form which I declined to do. Checking the web address showed that it must be a scam. Refer tot he DPD website for more information. Beware.......!! Edited By 2W on 05/12/2020 08:37:34

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Peter, I had the same message pop up on my screen when on this website and went through the process of answering the questions and would have won an i-phone 11. When it came to the information they requested, I realised that they were asking for much more information than I felt was necessary so I went no further. The scammers have made up an impressive web site with some good graphics which nearly convinced me but I have recently replaced my phone and didn't need another one. Then I asked myself why would Google want to give something for nothing?