A few photos from hundreds of high resolution images taken on our research trip to Orlando at the SUN'nFUN museum at Lakeland Airport. The museum were helpful and gave us permission to get up close to the SeaDart. This SeaDart YF2Y-1, 135765 never flew but was finished to the specification developed in SeaDart three.
We spent two days photographing every inch of the aircraft, making templates and taking down measurements to complement the research already collected from San Diego.
This helped our understanding of the ski retraction mechanisms and also proved invaluable for the rivet counter that lurks within all scale modellers... over 100’000 to be applied to our 1/4 scale model. We were carful to cross reference this aircraft with our research which showed some differences mainly due to the passage of time. With these differences filtered out and our San Diego data merged we now had enough to make a start designing YF2Y-1, 135762.
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