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LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3920915 Aug 17 22:55

Trans-Canada Highway closed.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3920815 Aug 17 22:53

The West is BURNING UP !!
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3920715 Aug 17 22:31

LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3904815 Jul 17 07:16

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, Image # 3904715 Jul 17 07:14

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, Image # 3904615 Jul 17 07:11

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!
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3904314 Jul 17 09:17

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, Image # 3904214 Jul 17 09:16

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, Image # 3904114 Jul 17 09:14

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, Image # 3904013 Jul 17 23:43

DASTARDLEY AND MUTLEY
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3903913 Jul 17 23:41

FARTING DOG PLANE
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3903813 Jul 17 19:11

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).
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3903713 Jul 17 19:09

Fin/rudder, stabilizer, and left and right lower sesqui wings frames are completed now and finished sanded.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3903613 Jul 17 19:08

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, Image # 3901910 Jul 17 12:29

Note the "folding prop".
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3901810 Jul 17 12:26

Cartoon Break - "Control Line Flying" - or "U- control"
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3900808 Jul 17 18:45

The bottom sequi wings are removed from the board - Halleluja! - the bottoms of all the parts are flush and even! - now to finish the frames off.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3900708 Jul 17 18:43

3/32" sq "correction" strips have now been added to the wing root and angled potion of wing root to trailing edge.
LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 3900308 Jul 17 07:44
You can really see the small size of this Gere Sport plane in this pic, by the size of the pilot's head, and the early inflatable balloon tires.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3900307 Jul 17 09:54

GERE SPORT biplane and engines used - http://www.plans-for-everything.com/downloads/aircraft/aircraft_gere.pdf
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