nastybirdi
Posts: 15
Joined: 11/8/2005
From: rising sun,
MD, USA
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Mgm2,
The quality of the kit looks very nice compared to those that I’ve seen. From a building point of view I’d prefer to see more details on the plans e.g. more cross sections of the fuselage etc. Like I said I struggled with the building of the fuselage because of the “part nomenclature” but finally figured it out the next day. I would have preferred to have better guidance into mounting retracts in the wings and nose but I guess they can’t cover everything when they are trying to mass product kits. There were two pieces of wood that were broken when I unpacked the kit but it didn’t have an impact. Other than that I’d buy another kit from Bluebird.
Stripes,
I’m bumming big time from your comments. Not that it’s your fault but I hesitated installing the firewall for a long time until I got assurance that it wouldn’t cause a problem. Unfortunately, I installed it yesterday afternoon and didn’t read this message till this morning. As you can see from my previous pic’s the firewall is sitting on the plans! Oh well not your fault.. To settle this I’ll go home tonight and flop the whole plane on the CG machine and see what’s up with this weight distribution thing.
8178,
Special thanks to 8178 here!
I plagiarized and modified your wheel well tip (from your kwik fli III thread). Your build had the advantage of a foam wing so I had to improvise. I first glued a small overlap piece onto one end of the strip to act as a joining point. I then wrapped some 1/32” plywood around a 2.5” hole saw to make a perfectly round well. NOTE: make sure the overlap piece is glued with the grain running parallel with the well diameter. Had a “blonde moment” and did one with the grain running perpendicular and it cracked when I rolled it on the table to join the 2 ends. I placed the strip with the joining strip on the table with duct tape under it so when I rolled it into the joint it would hold the two ends together. I then had to use a small carpenters clamp to hold down the glue end around the hole saw.
I then used the 2.5” hole saw to cut a hole in a piece of ½” foam to act as a carrier for the well. I then glued the round well inside the foam hole. When the epoxy was dry I sawed up close to the round well to remove 1/8th of the foam from one side. I then glued the whole thing between the two wing ribs. I followed your fillet tips to make perfect fillets in the wells. When a 2.25” wheel is put into the finished well there is approx. 1/16” around the wheel. Couldn’t be more perfect.
I skinned the wings and glued the firewall in on Sunday (but now regret it).
Patternguy,
Hope I luck out and it balances properly this evening or I'm filling in those perfect wheel wells and draggin the tail!
PS anyone wanna donate some sanding time for the fuselage?
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