This week marks a mini- mile stone. The wing is almost
completely roughed in. What this means is, next week we will probably bring
home the fuse from the Sponsoring Hobby Shop (NRC Hobbies). Once we bring
the fuse home we will work on the fit and flashings for the wing to the
fuse. It appears I have gotten the cart in front of the horse as I haven't
told you of tonight's work yet!Starting the night was the mounting of the
starboard tank access hatches and installing the last big piece of starboard
sheeting. Now on to the port side. we need to cut and mount a large sheet of
sheeting. Cut and fit the port tank access hatch and finally mount the port
hatch.
A quick check of the plans proved the inside nacelles needed a solid
carved block of balsa at the rear. Now we looked through our live pictures
and check the planes again. The outboard nacelles flow back to a sharp point
on the bottom. The inboard nacelles however, don't flow to a point but are
blunt at the rear. Now with the blocks installed, the wing is really looking
good.
We could not help ourselves. We had to install the wing tips, set back
and admire. Heck, lets take the pictures tonight with the tips in.
-- Gary Himes