charlie holdford
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Part way to completing the covering,
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Well my wire bender arrived today and it is fantastic, bent the 8 swg wire as if I was superman
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Thanks Peter, I will see if I can fabricate such a device
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My delivery arrived today, so will start again. Decide to have a go at the undercarriage. Blooming heck how do you bend 8 SWG Piano wire to 90 degrees?
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Peter, I am no perfectionist by a long shot, but a good model deserves to look good! In fact I am a novice, the only skill I have is I look read, remember and try to emulate, if it doesn't look right I will do it again. That's my flying style as well. Having passed my A cert. I do multiple circuits and landings most flying days. As well as starting to learn some aerobatics. But the truth is I can take off and land multiple types of model as well as anyone in the club. PS Cant believe, no one else is building it, My goal is to be flying it before the next edition of the magazine come out.. Only the weather will stop me I think.
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Hi Peter, thanks for that, I try not to rush and have been known to throw it away and start again.... Still I had a few scraps of oracover left so decided to start the tail feathers. Just put in place for the photo... As you can see its going to be in Red Bull Aerobatic colours... well its aerobatic!
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Well the balsa bashing is complete, all sanded ready for some covering, that I am still waiting for....
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Hi kc Your right about varied thickness of sheet balsa, as I have found out it can be a lot different... I have a stripper, I found that pre-cut strip is usually always hard balsa and expensive. Cheers.
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Thanks for the reasoning, I must admit the ribs seem to need something, having used soft balsa.
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Hi Piers, Thanks for that. Yes, its not not taken long it is a very straightforward build. The weather has been crap so no flying... My last build took just under 400 hours.... Waiting for some piano wire, captive nuts etc. and the covering to arrive, so that may stop progress for a while as I never seem to get any deliveries on a Saturday?
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Pilot painted and the tail supports moulded. Nearly done the build. Can you guess the colour scheme yet?
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Well nearly completed the wing just the cap strips to add. Having never done this before, should the grain be the same direction as the ribs or across?
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Whist the fuselage was drying, thought I would start the wing on the other bench. It is so easy I got carried away and got this far pretty quickly...
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Well its certainly straight forward Fuselage now ready for servo mounting and tail fitting. Put a bit of filler on the joints and the side dents, as I used some old stock sheet left overs.
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