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| Barnstormer, Comment for image # 9230 | 01 Sep 08 12:58 |
| Looks Great, do you cover wet or dry? |
| simpleflyer, Image # 9230 | 31 Aug 08 23:12 |
Better pic of completed wings, ready for struts. |
| simpleflyer, Image # 9224 | 30 Aug 08 23:22 |
Wings covered with tissue. Thanks DD, for the idea of using tape to hold the tissue in place when first attaching it to bottom of the wing, |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 9212 | 30 Aug 08 12:26 |
| This looks like it was a real pain but you did a masterful job. |
| Barnstormer, Comment for image # 9212 | 30 Aug 08 10:05 |
| Very nice work. |
| simpleflyer, Image # 9212 | 29 Aug 08 21:20 |
Thread traiing edges in place. |
| SteveM, Comment for image # 9137 | 28 Aug 08 14:49 |
| At this time only the Wright Flyer and the 200 series kits are laser cut.
The method used to cut the wood is independent of the quality of the wood. Laser cutting does not always imply good quality wood just as die crushing does not necessarily imply low quality wood. The correlation is likely that a low cost kit will use die cutting and poor quality wood to save costs while an expensive kit allocates more money to laser cutting and quality wood. I do not know if Guillow's has been using better quality wood in the laser cut kits or not, all I know is that it is not going into any of the die cut kits that I have purchased. |
| buffalowings, Comment for image # 9137 | 28 Aug 08 13:42 |
| are all guillow's laser cut kits like this, or do they have low quality wood? |
| Barnstormer, Comment for image # 9198 | 27 Aug 08 21:16 |
| Wow what fine work, a ton of ribs and a thread for the trailing edge. very delicate! Nice job. |
| simpleflyer, Image # 9198 | 27 Aug 08 19:57 |
Ribs in place, next the thread TE and a few small bits. |
| simpleflyer, Comment for image # 9137 | 26 Aug 08 21:41 |
| I have to agree with David. The wood on this one that I am building is excellent and the laser cutting is equally excellent. |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 9137 | 24 Aug 08 08:43 |
| On the one I built the laser cutting and wood were perfect. It may not be meant to fly but it's surprisingly sturdy. |
| buffalowings, Comment for image # 9137 | 24 Aug 08 08:18 |
| looks fun, how's the quality of the laser cutting and wood, I know it isn't meant to fly but quality still matters |
| simpleflyer, Comment for image # 9137 | 23 Aug 08 22:25 |
| Thanks, guys. The fun starts when we do the covering and it gets funnier with the struts and thread reigging. |
| poppy, Comment for image # 9137 | 22 Aug 08 22:09 |
| My goodness, that's a lot of ribs. Orville and Wilbur were making sure the airfoil remained contstant. Perfect layout going! |
| moostang51, Comment for image # 9137 | 22 Aug 08 18:41 |
| Heh... hee, not in my wildest dreams. But this does look grand. |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 9137 | 22 Aug 08 18:16 |
| Fun, huh!? |
| simpleflyer, Image # 9137 | 19 Aug 08 21:57 |
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| simpleflyer, Image # 7944 | 22 Apr 08 00:00 |
Glued up the remaining ribs for the top wing. Cracked only 1 rib this time. Found out that Guillows failed to cut sufficient gusssets for the wing tips, so had to scratch build a few. |
| simpleflyer, Comment for image # 7899 | 21 Apr 08 23:56 |
| It is a tedious and delicate build. When I put the plans on the board earlier in the year, I looked at them for a week or so and was discouraged at its complexity and put it aside. But the Wright 1903 flyer is one of my all time favorite airplanes. So I've decided to tackle it anyway. I just convinced myself that it is only a bunch of sticks and to go ahead and glue them together - one stick at a time and to be very patient and careful. |
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