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Old 05-05-2003, 04:02 PM
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Default Midwest Messerschmitt .40

The thing that gets me is if I knew that I'ld have to play games with wing warping I'ld have built in the correct washout by adding my own TE jig. Mine was done just like the picture on the box with 1/4 in seams in the monokote and the heating of the monokote which had to be done atleast once a month eventually ruined those monokote joints (I had to put masking tape over the joints because if the joint got hot it would give letting the wing go right back to were I started). Final solution was to remove the covering give the wing a shower then bend it up on my work bench and let it dry. After two or three showers the wings were pretty close to = and I recovered it.

It flew well after that, but it was nothing to write home to mother about.

My buddy and I realy lobbied to have an addendom put in the kit to show how to adjust the TE jig to build in that washout.

Oh well, live and learn.