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    Thanks, Dylan. Look forward to seeing some piccies of the 200% version.
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     This thread is probably long since dead, but, 2 years and 3 months after starting this project from laser cut wood, I have finally completed the build. It is now awaiting its maiden but given the current UK weather, that might be some time... Edited By John Fontana on 08/02/2016 16:56:18
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    Hi, BEB. Many thanks for such a detailed build thread which is helping me enormously in my first ever build. Can I ask a couple of questions? 1) When you fashioned the post of the fin to fit into the tailplane, did you cut a piece off the base of the fin just leaving the post, or did you add another piece of balsa to the base of the fin, shaped to form the post? 2) Can you give an indication for the undercarriage of how far below the fuselage the axles for the wheels are positioned, just to give me an idea of dimensions for the U/C? Thanks Edited By John Fontana on 12/02/2014 12:26:13
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    Well in that case, BEB, I am well and truly stuffed also.
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    BEB, I am really enjoying the detail of your build thread, along with the dash of humour. I started early December getting a lot of help from Dylan's thread - good to see you posting again, Dylan. I am just a little ahead of you but have stalled on the build of the cockpit section. So putting in a plea for your continuing detail when you get to this stage. I am particularly having problems with the positioning of F2A, F3 and F5. Also I would draw attention to a discovery that I and I think VA made that the assembled wing appears to be too wide from leading edge to rear at the wing's centre point, so that it does not drop straight into the wing mount area on the fuselage. F5 still has to be placed against and in front of F5A, making this problem even more acute.
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    VA - sorry to hear about the problems. My daughter had the same experience with it all falling through on the day she was due to move. So perhaps by way of distraction.... I have come close to completing the wing, with the two halves now joined. I did a trial fit on the fuselage, and the wing will not fit onto its support on the fuselage. The gap on the fuselage is too small to accommodate the width of the root of the wing. I have double checked the fuselage and the wing on the plans, and they have been built accurately to the dimensions of the plan. The difference is only small, but if the front and rear formers (F2A and F5) for the cockpit also have to fit into the gap, there will be a significant discrepancy. Which brings me to my other query - I can't work out where these formers (F2A, F3 and F5) sit in relation to the wing and fuselage. If you haven't already built this section, I would appreciate some close up pics as you go along.
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    Sorry to hear that, Dylan. Hope you can get something else sorted as soon as you can feel up to it. You are obviously fated to be the first to complete their mass build project.
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    Vecchio, Looking really excellent. A carrot to a donkey like me! John
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    Ok, Dylan, now I understand. A picture tells a thousand words... I somehow missed that part of your blog.
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    I did as Andrew suggested-2 A3 sheets for 80p, sellotaped together. Phil, you are right that Lindsay states in the RCM&E article that it is possible to build over the plan in two parts. As an intellectual challenge, I have pondered over how this can be done but with my congenital absence of spatial awareness, I can't work it out. If one builds on the plan and then inverts it to add the wing tip to the other end, the aerofoil profile is under the wing rather than on top. Not to labour the point too much, but if there is a simple way of doing it, it would be useful to those building the two halves of the wing in future.
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    Thanks, Andrew, will do, but doesn't it strike folk as crazy, that in the age of digital manipulation, the plan providers can't add the mirror image as standard, and if they have to, add a little to the plan price?
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