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Guillows Series 200 - SE5a by hjlittman. Viewed 1284 times. Build Thread  Prev Click image to return. Image Comments hjlittman 21-Jul-18 16:00 I traced Former 1 onto a single piece of 1/16" sheet, cut it out and glued it into the back of the plastic nose with the nose reinforcement spacers. Since the plastic nose is meant to go over Former 1 that makes the fuselage 1/16" longer, but who's going to notice? Then I made a simple box key using the opening that existed in Former 1. The top and bottom of the hole is curved so I simply made the top and bottom of the box to match the curves. The key is quite snug and is perfectly aligned but I'm still going to add a couple of neodymium magnets to hold it in place. I hate loose nose blocks. Don C 21-Jul-18 19:15 Looks like a good fit. What happened at the contest? hjlittman 21-Jul-18 23:10 Finished third. Discovered that my Wright Amount of Wrong while successful indoors needs very different trim flying outdoors. If it hits a thermal head on it climbs like crazy as I intended it. However, if it clips a thermal on the side, instead of circling in it does a rather spectacular barrel roll out of it. Needs more testing. Don C 22-Jul-18 09:58 Congratulations. Not building fliers, I don't understand how trim would make it go into a thermal rather than being flipped out of it. hjlittman 10-Aug-18 21:24 I forgot to take the drag tabs that I use to tighten the turn for indoor flying off the left wing tips. Hitting the edge of a clockwise turning thermal they acted like Gurney flaps and caused a barrel roll to the right. If I had taken them off the left thrust would have pulled it in. We're flying a 17 gram model with 70 square inches of wing area here. The thermals are a lot stronger than the air conditioner turbulence in the gym! Oh yes, I forgot to mention that not enough WWI models showed up for that part of the contest...only flew the Embryo. Please sign in to comment on this image.