chris Ibbotson

Sorry Electriflier for my typo error. If it's alright with you. I'll see you after school to do my lines. The next stage was to start the build of the fuz. 3/4" triangular balsa was glued to the uprights on all corners of the fuz internal ply wing support frame and the top 1/8" light ply wing side braces fitted. I measured the inner ply support frame profile with the plan.This was not a good result. I found for some reason the front battery box section was approximately 16mm nose down. The rear section was in line and true. I thought about re-building the complete support frame. Time consuming and using more material. So I cut the battery box sides as shown by the pencil and re-aligned the battery box. The complete section was checked for alignment On the bench the front and rear box section looked good.( pick's of this aren't that good ) Now thing's are looking a lot better. The top nose side formers were glued in place. The front nose leg was hit/bashed into shape. and a brass mounting plate and tube silver soldered to allow mounting to the front ply bulk head. The rear undercarriage height was measured, so I could correctly set the height of the nose leg. It was at this point I couldn't resist doing a dry fit using duck tape. I hope you agree that she is starting to look like an "Islander". As I've said before, thank you for following the build. Till next time. Regards Chris.