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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 14-Jul-17 09:17 |  | | Views : 247 | | 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. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 14-Jul-17 09:16 |  | | Views : 243 | | The 3/32" sq LE is now braced up in position, with long straight planks. The ribs are now also braced up with the other side location planks, that are pinned to the table on the other side of the ribs. The ribs were then slid forward up against the LE, and the rear 3/32" X 3/16" TE was then slid up snug to the rear of the ribs, and the TE is also braced up with a long plank pinned to the table, insuring a snug, flush slip fit to the back of the ribs. All of these laser cut ribs fit perfectly! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 14-Jul-17 09:14 |  | | Views : 267 | | MAIN WING ASSEMBLY - The parts, and the 3/32" square Leading Edge (LE) and the 3/32" X 3/16" Trailing Edge (TE), are now laid out, for the right and left wing sections. The bracing planks, for one side of the ribs, are now pinned to the building board to hold the ribs in position. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 13-Jul-17 23:43 |  | | Views : 326 | | DASTARDLEY AND MUTLEY |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 13-Jul-17 23:41 |  | | Views : 282 | | FARTING DOG PLANE |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 13-Jul-17 19:11 |  | | Views : 232 | | The total weight of the lower sequi wings alone together = 0 grams. The total weight of all four assemblies together = 2 grams (my scale only measures to one gram graduations). |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 13-Jul-17 19:09 |  | | Views : 243 | | Fin/rudder, stabilizer, and left and right lower sesqui wings frames are completed now and finished sanded. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 13-Jul-17 19:08 |  | | Views : 258 | | SIG "Customaire" bipe 20" The lower sesqui wings are sanded up to airfoil shape to 320 grit sandpaper. The 1/16" X 1/8" trailing edge and the 3/32" sq leading edges were very hard balsa - very hard to sand, but at least I got it done without breaking anything. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 11-Jul-17 13:11 |  | | Views : 559 | | Because of the high humidity, the tissue covering on the plane eventually wilted to a very wet and saggy, wavy and droopy, airfoil, and was not able then to create ANY lift !!! - BUT - I got my longest flight yet, on the second try, of 56 SECONDS !!! , on 1050 winds of the rubber, using a 15:1 winder (70 turns on the crank), and a winding stooge, before it would eventually not even hold level flights any more when the tissue became so waterlogged! I am trying to break the one minute of flight threshold barrier! By the way, as soon as I brought that wilted, waterlogged tissue airplane, back into my air-conditioned apartment, where the hot moisture in the air had been taken away, the tissue MAGICALLY shrunk back to a "drum taught", perfect airfoil !! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 11-Jul-17 13:07 |  | | Views : 319 | | LONGER MOTOR & TRIM TABS - Yesterday it rained pretty good all day long, and the sun came out in late afternoon, and was evaporating all of the water into the air = HIGH HUMIDITY. I took the 22" Sig "Cabinaire" out at twilight gloaming dusk, for some flights with a new, longer motor, of two, 20" long each, strands of 3/16" rubber (prop hook to rear motor peg is 13"). The plane had on the previous evening at dusk, been flying during "transition", after initial power burst, flying into quick descending, tight, steep-turn spiral dives, on the Right Hand circle flight. I tried to counteract this, by putting a small DOWN "tab", of file folder cardboard, scotch taped (it does not rip the tissue off when you pull off the tape), taped this tab, with a little downwards bend, onto the bottom trailing edge of the outward right wing, to raise the wing during flight, and another small LEFT "tab", with a little left bend in it, taped this tab to the left side of the rudder, to counteract the right turn a bit. It flew GREAT !!! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 10-Jul-17 12:29 |  | | Views : 301 | | Note the "folding prop". |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 10-Jul-17 12:26 |  | | Views : 278 | | Cartoon Break - "Control Line Flying" - or "U- control" |
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