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| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 06-Oct-12 16:39 |  | | Views : 934 | | Should have read the post on not shrinking the stab. Warped pretty good. Prelim test flights were pretty bad, with a steep bank. I've tried unwarping with steam, but it seems to want to return to warped state. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 06-Oct-12 16:35 |  | | Views : 938 | | Finished base layer of tissue. Put on dry with a glue stick as adhesive. Shrunk with 50/50 alcohol & water. Wings came out pretty good, fuse was ok with a few wrinkles, the stab.... |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 23-Sep-12 05:02 |  | | Views : 947 | | Here I completed scalloping. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 23-Sep-12 05:01 |  | | Views : 889 | | I screwed up the plastic nose cowling trying to fit the prop so I made a new one on my mini lathe. The added weight of the wood cowling helped a lot with balancing the plane. Slipped a bit with the skew but should come out when i sand to size. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 18-Sep-12 05:03 |  | | Views : 893 | | In build #1, the plans called for a single piece wing assembly. The A-1 calls for separate wings glued to the fuselage. Separate wings was definitely easier to attach to the fuse, but I wonder what will happen in the 1st crash. I can foresee some major damage to the fuse. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 18-Sep-12 04:53 |  | | Views : 855 | | here is the side profile of the wingtip |
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| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 18-Sep-12 04:51 |  | | Views : 800 | | I wasn't happy with the spar-type wingtps on my first plane, so I wanted to try solid wingtips on build #2. I built up the wingtips with balsa strip, sanded the horizontal/vertical axis to match the surrounding profile, then finished up by sanding to blend the profiles. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 18-Sep-12 04:46 |  | | Views : 802 | | Vertical stabilizer prior to the spars being trimmed. Although not seen in this picture, excess material from the fillets has also been removed. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 18-Sep-12 04:44 |  | | Views : 837 | | Here is the horizontal stabilizer with excess material removed from fillets to try to reduce weight behind the CG. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 16-Sep-12 19:20 |  | | Views : 896 | | Horizontal stabilizer. Not sure if you can see this, but sanded ends of 1/16" spars to match the thickness of the kit parts |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Build | 04-Sep-12 18:43 |  | | Views : 925 | | Start of build #2. Applied some lessons learned from build #1 - thinned parts before cutting/popping them out; and sanded open stringer notches with a homemade notched instead of cutting them. |
| Mazaman | Guillows Series 500 - BF 109 | Parked | 03-Sep-12 18:59 |  | | Views : 769 | | After repairing the wing damage from the last crash, I too out the 109 for a quick test flight. Plane performed classic combat maneuver - accidentally. Flew level for about 30 ft then started to climb. Eventually stalled, tail spun around 90 deg, and then the plane dove. Unfortunately didn't pull out in time. End result - snapped propeller and some ripped tissue on the wing. |
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