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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 16-Jul-17 18:14 |  | | Views : 3815 | | 2nd TIME FLYING - I exploded the rubber motor into a big twisted knot in the rear of the fuse, when I tried to wind it anyway, after I saw that one of the four strands of rubber was broken inside the fuse. DUH !! I tore up the rear fuse tissue badly - I sauntered home and repaired it. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 16-Jul-17 18:07 |  | | Views : 3817 | | 1st TIME FLYING - After a couple of cartwheeling landing flights, which probably cracked the "0ne-piece" stab/fin/rudder (that is only glued to the fuse in three tiny spots), I made a sloppy launch, where the stab caught my hand and tore off the whole stab/fin/rudder assembly! How EMBARASSING - there were people watching! LOL. The plane bravely tried to continue to fly, but rather unproductively and poorly .... I had to do another big "picture frame" repair on the other side of the stab now. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 16-Jul-17 17:58 |  | | Views : 3733 | | Well, yesterday, it seemed that I was determined to total my 22" SIG "Cabinaire". I went flying three different times yesterday, in strong winds and gusts, each time moping home, doing the repairs, and heading right back out - the last time, totally breaking the left wing ... OH NO !!! That is what I get for flying in strong winds and too many winds on the prop! |
| hjlittman | HJL Models Beanberg DI | Parked | 16-Jul-17 00:46 |  | | Views : 1995 | | Close up of the Beanburg D1. Anyone recognize the pilot in the picklehaub? |
| hjlittman | HJL Models Beanberg DI | Parked | 16-Jul-17 00:40 |  | | Views : 1990 | | This is my latest Bostonian the Beanburg D1. It's a bit like the Red Baron meets Dick Dastardly, but flies quite well. |
| Don C | Scratch Built Grumman F9F Panther | Reference | 15-Jul-17 11:35 |  | | Views : 1028 | | This Spam Can treated me well. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 15-Jul-17 07:16 |  | | Views : 829 | | TOP VIEW - I made two extra wing photocopies, and highlighted the ribs to glue, with blue color, and covered them with waxed paper, and "lined them up" with the plans. This was to set the ribs on, without sticking, when they dried in the first part of "double gluing". |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 15-Jul-17 07:14 |  | | Views : 754 | | SIG "Customaire" 22" free flight rubber - SIDEWAYS VIEW - The ribs are all in place (not glued yet), and are snug and flush, and braced up, and checked for easy removal for the first gluing of the "double gluing" procedure. The thin bracing planks for the tops of the ribs (to hold the rib bottoms flush to the building board), are cut out and ready to go. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 15-Jul-17 07:11 |  | | Views : 766 | | I had forgotten - but now have put in - the small inside bracing planks for the LE and TE parts. Now, the LE and TE parts are braced into their location on both sides. In woodworking, "you can never have too many clamps!" (a wise man once said). All of this fussing should make the gluing operation very smooth and easy, hopefully! |
| David Duckett | Guillows Series 2000 - B-24 Liberator | Reference | 14-Jul-17 18:21 |  | | Views : 1068 | | Ready to get out of Dodge |
| David Duckett | Guillows Series 2000 - B-24 Liberator | Reference | 14-Jul-17 18:21 |  | | Views : 1121 | | The studio in disarray |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 14-Jul-17 09:17 |  | | Views : 738 | | The LE and TE are now held down flat to the board, with the tips of long thin planks, placed on top of the LE and TE, with these planks being pinned to the board. |
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