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| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built FF-62 Fleet Canuck | Parked | 20-Sep-17 08:58 |  | | Views : 355 | | BUILDING THE FLOATS - It was difficult cutting and getting the printwood parts right. All of the float formers sat crooked when standing on the float keels, because I cut them out crooked with the exacto knife - I had to sand them all to a right angle perpendicular edge mating surface. And all of my 10 second Cyano Acrylate "CA" glue bottles were either rock hard in the bottle, or had lost all of their potency. Luckily, I had one bottle of CA super glue from Dolarama - but it was 30 second glue, not 10 second glue - I found out the hard way ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built FF-62 Fleet Canuck | Parked | 19-Sep-17 07:15 |  | | Views : 361 | | On Saturday October 14, there will be a "MODEL SHOW", open to everyone, inside the Historic Hangar at Windsor Airport, from 10 am to 3pm, open to all categories of models - airplanes, ships, cars, anything. It's your chance to see some great models, or show off your favorite models, and, if you want, enter your best models into the different categories, each with a prize. Inside the Historic Hangar you can talk to the volunteers who are tirelessly working to restore the Lancaster and Mosquito bombers. There is also a big BBQ with hotdogs and hamburgs for lunch. So bring the kids and have some fun at the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association’s third annual "MODEL SHOW" at the Historic Hangar at Windsor Airport on Saturday October 14, from 10 am to 3 pm, open to all models, and open to everyone. Visit CH2a.ca for details. |
| Huey V77 | Flyline Models Stearman C3B | Parked | 17-Sep-17 21:12 |  | | Views : 448 | | Oops, new copilot, 5mths old HALO, road kill pose.... |
| Huey V77 | Flyline Models Stearman C3B | Parked | 17-Sep-17 21:11 |  | | Views : 425 | | Fairing in the 985, bigger than the 200hp J5. |
| Huey V77 | Flyline Models Stearman C3B | Parked | 17-Sep-17 21:10 |  | | Views : 359 | | Lower cabains for the landing gear assembly . |
| Huey V77 | Flyline Models Stearman C3B | Parked | 17-Sep-17 21:08 |  | | Views : 353 | | Bottom wing fitted.up. |
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| Huey V77 | Flyline Models Stearman C3B | Parked | 17-Sep-17 21:07 |  | | Views : 385 | | Tail feathers covered . |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Guillows Series 800 - Mosquito | Parked | 17-Sep-17 20:56 |  | | Views : 620 | | Volunteers are using a heatin iron and blueish colored glue to install the woven fabric. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Guillows Series 800 - Mosquito | Parked | 17-Sep-17 20:54 |  | | Views : 616 | | They have started putting the woven fabric onto the "Wooden Wonder". It has been glued, stretched, and heated onto the underside of the Stabilizer, with a heating iron. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Guillows Series 800 - Mosquito | Parked | 17-Sep-17 20:49 |  | | Views : 640 | | Right hand view of Landing Gear and Engines. The talk is now of actually flying the plane, instead of just taxiing it around. This restoration is going on 15 years. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Guillows Series 800 - Mosquito | Parked | 17-Sep-17 20:47 |  | | Views : 608 | | Right Merlin Engine. They found two Merllin engines, still in their crates, unused, in a barn at a farm in Saskatchewan Province, for $10,000 each. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Guillows Series 800 - Mosquito | Parked | 17-Sep-17 20:44 |  | | Views : 639 | | A few shots for Brian - "MOSQUITO" restoration at the Historic Hangar in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Left Merllin engine. |
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