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| poppy | 07-Mar-14 04:22 |
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| poppy | 07-Mar-14 04:24 |
| Plans call for glueing formers to tube, but I left free so tube can be removed after infilling. |
| John M Oshust | 07-Mar-14 07:15 |
| Does that tube also serve a a rubber band airplane destruction preventor if used as a flight model? |
| poppy | 07-Mar-14 17:38 |
| It would take more than a cardboard tube to prevent crash destruction! But it was designed to enclose rubber motor if used. |
| John M Oshust | 07-Mar-14 17:43 |
| I hear you, that is what I meant. If the tube was a safety mechanism, would an access port be required, somewhere in the tail, to enable hooking on a new rubber? |
| BriandKilby | 07-Mar-14 17:44 |
| I remember I got a fw-190 kit with the cardboard insert when I was a kid, I thought it was so abstract to balsa building that I threw the kit away. |
| David Duckett | 07-Mar-14 18:28 |
| That's a funny and brilliant observation, Brian! You definitely moved up a few notches>:-) But, seriously, I could see the reason for the tube but those wing ribs make no sense at all. Covered with anything other than mahogany, they would look gross. Somehow I think Poppy will probably cover them with some nice wood. |
| hjlittman | 07-Mar-14 19:09 |
| The wings with the crossed ribs are quite stiff and warp free for their weight. Models built from kits in this series actually fly quite well if you get rid of the #$%@ tube and do some other lightening. They were Comet's last gasp and not quite enough to save the company.
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