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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 10-Jul-17 06:42 |  | | Views : 436 | | New tissue is covered over all the damaged area - back ready to fly!! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 10-Jul-17 06:40 |  | | Views : 321 | | I then used a couple of notch sanders to make notches to hold the three 1/16" sq forward fuse bottom stringers that were busted up and removed. One of the three stringers is in place. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 10-Jul-17 06:38 |  | | Views : 358 | | The pic shows the clamping plates in position, and holding tight, the glued up support plate. I was able to get the jaws of two strong clamps inside the fuse opening to hold everything together. All glued up and clamped in place. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 10-Jul-17 06:36 |  | | Views : 376 | | I was able to double white glue that chunk of balsa, that was ripped out from the bottom of the forward fuse former, right back into its spot ( it slid right back in - press fit! ). I then made a 1/16" thick, slightly smaller, 3/4 size support plate (with the rectangular cutout for the nose block), to glue in behind that forward fuse former bulkhead for additional strengthening. The pic shows the support plate (with inked lines), sitting in position inside the front fuse former. I also made two clamping plates (either side of the fuse) - one for the front of the fuse, and one for inside the fuse, to hold the support plate in place while the glue dries. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 08-Jul-17 22:32 |  | | Views : 374 | | The plane flew close enough for the flash to light it up. Much more experimentation is needed ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 08-Jul-17 22:29 |  | | Views : 351 | | My try at full moon night flight photography - looks like UFOs ... |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 08-Jul-17 18:58 |  | | Views : 362 | | I just tried using bigger rubber and I reduced the number of rubber strands, on my 22" Cabinaire, with great results. Instead of 4 strands of 1/8" rubber, each strand 13" long (the prop hook to rear motor peg length on the plan was 13"), which gave consistent 25 second flights, I then instead went to 2 strands of 3/16" rubber, each strand 15" long. I could really stretch the rubber very far out from the nose, using a winding stooge, and wound in 55 winds on my 15:1 winder which equals 825 turns on the rubber motor, and got my record, much slower, beautiful turning flight of 48 seconds!! Tthen I got greedy and wound 70 turns on the winder for 1050 turns, and when I put the nose plug on - the Rubber Motor BLEW UP !!! Tissue damage all over the rear end, and a big chunk (sitting on my glasses case), of the foreward fuse former, busted out, along with the bottom fuse forward nose stringers busted !! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 08-Jul-17 18:45 |  | | Views : 349 | | 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 | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 08-Jul-17 18:43 |  | | Views : 363 | | 3/32" sq "correction" strips have now been added to the wing root and angled potion of wing root to trailing edge. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 07-Jul-17 09:54 |  | | Views : 760 | | GERE SPORT biplane and engines used - http://www.plans-for-everything.com/downloads/aircraft/aircraft_gere.pdf |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 07-Jul-17 09:51 |  | | Views : 341 | | George "Bud" Gere Jr. (designer of the Gere Sport plane) died when he slipped while trying to dislodge a frozen sled runner while testing out a newly built iceboat on White Bear Lake on Jan 18, 1931, and fell into the spinning propeller and died of his injuries. He was only 19 years old. A trajic loss of such a brilliant young mind. Makes you wonder ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 06-Jul-17 15:26 |  | | Views : 444 | | 20" Sig 'Customaire biplane - The second W6 rib on each wing is now added with a 1/32" spacer between the ribs, where the strut tips will locate in the space between the doubled up W6 ribs. The strut tips can be moved forward or backward in the slot, or "sprung a little", in the slot left when I remove the 1/32" spacer. There are also added one 1/16" square balsa strip of wood on top of the solid wing tip pieces, to sand down and shape after assembly, for a smooth tissue application. Two little gussets were also added at the skinny thin 3/32" wing tip root - OOOOPS - I used 1/16" sq - must cut it out now! Smiley and put in the right size ... |
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