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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/19/2004 2:44:41 PM   
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Status: online 		There were a few hair line cracks on the nose of the fuselage caused by the UPS shipping damage. The cracks were mostly on the surface and did not extend into the cloth so I just sanded them and coated the area with resin. I waited until the resin set up and sanded the area smooth. See the before and after images below and the image of the complete aircraft showing how it looks at this point. Next I’ll be finishing the wheel wells.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/21/2004 2:23:17 AM   
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Status: online 		I like to line the wheel wells with 1/64 plywood because it is strong, easy to work with and to finish. After cutting the wheel wells and retract mount area I use a paint can top covered with sand paper to smooth and square the foam floor of the wheel well with the sides. Strips of plywood covered with sand paper are used to square up the foam in the retract gear area. I usually run the air line path in front of the wheel well and around to the retract gear area but on this build the path is over the top of the wheel well. I use Tietbond to glue in the wheel well ply parts but epoxy on the ply around the retract unit. Micro-balloons mixed with epoxy are used to make small fillets in the wheel well and retract gear area. 1/8 square hardwoog strips are glued under the gear mount to tie the 1/64 ply to the gear mount.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/21/2004 2:27:21 AM   
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Status: online 		View of the plywood in place and the Micro-balloon fillets.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/21/2004 2:30:05 AM   
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Status: online 		View of gear.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/21/2004 2:36:23 AM   
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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 1:38:07 AM   
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Status: online 		It’s been too cold in Atlanta (18 degrees) to start with the primer work on the fuselage and wing center section so I’ve moved on to the planning and installation of the throttle linkage and servos. I like to use a cable for the throttle with a nylon clevis for the carb connection. See the images below for the throttle linkage.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 1:48:01 AM   
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Status: online 		I had to add a ½’ plywood spacer to the servo mounts so the Futaba S148 BB servos would fit in the space that I had planned for the Kraft KPS11 servos 30 years ago. I decided that the spacers would be a better solution that ripping out the neat original balsa and plywood servo mounts.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 2:01:12 AM   
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Status: online 		Looking at the installation the servo on the top left is the rudder, center left is the elevator, bottom left is the throttle and the servo in the back is for the retract gear air valve. The Rom-Air retract control valve can be seen in front of the servo. The air tank is next to the servo. On the original Kwik Fli I mounted the air fill valve and radio off/On switch in the nose gear wheel well and I’m thinking that it would be cool to do that again. What do you thank about that idea? I might put the radio antenna inside the fuselage too. The Rom-Air nose gear uses a pull – pull cable and I’m planning to use the red plastic tube to guide the cables that can be seen on the top of the image.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 3:55:32 AM   
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On the original Qwik Fli I mounted the air fill valve and radio off/On switch in the nose gear wheel well and I’m thinking that it would be cool to do that again. What do you thank about that idea?



Sounds like a neat idea, I'm assuming that fuel or anything like that will affect the switches? Looking good, although I think I'll still stick to my tapered wing Stingers

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 1:55:03 PM   
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On the original Qwik Fli I mounted the air fill valve and radio off/On switch in the nose gear wheel well and I’m thinking that it would be cool to do that again. What do you thank about that idea?


Looking good, although I think I'll still stick to my tapered wing Stingers



But no retracts to play with! That could be considered good or bad feature depending on the builder. I guess you could easily say that all the 70s vintage aircraft looked like tapered wing Kwik Flis and 80s vintage aircraft looked like Tipos!

I didn’t have any problems with fuel leaks or getting fuel or oil in the switch or air filler on the original.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 2:21:16 PM   
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Had one in '73 Had Kraft radio system and you could only get 2 servo's side by side. Super Tigre .60 and what a sweet plane.

Wayne G.

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RE: Howard Engineering - Qwik Fli III – Build - 12/22/2004 3:59:53 PM   
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Wow.... Deja'-Vuuuuuuuuuuuu

Had one in '73 Had Kraft radio system and you could only get 2 servo's side by side. Super Tigre .60 and what a sweet plane.

Wayne G.


It’s not too late to experience again the fun of flying one of these awesome classics and thanks to the SPA more of these kits are becoming available. The SPA approved aircraft page at http://www.seniorpattern.com/planes.asp has the kit manufacturers listed at the bottom of the page. I think it is really neat that these kit manufacturers are making these great kits available again. In some cases, like Howard Engineering, they are being produced from the original molds and the plans and instruction are updated to include the current hardware, provisions for four strokes, etc.

A big thank you to all of the manufacturers that are producing these kits!

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RE: Howard Engineering - Kwik Fli III – Build - 12/23/2004 4:45:21 PM   
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Status: online 		The weather warmed a little so I started the primmer work on the wing center section. I plan to paint the center section of the wing and then overlap the outer edges of painted area when I MonoKote the remaining parts of wing like I did on the original Kwik Fli. I’ve also decided to use the same orange paint scheme with 2.5” white and orange checkers on the bottom of the wing. I’m using LusterKote rattle can paint to match the orange MonoKote. LusterKote is not my favorite paint and the primmer does not sand very well but it is a usable solution. The fuselage and the vert