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Dan Hines at Carolina Custom Aircraft carolinaaircraft@earthlink.net received my Blue Angel plans, wing rib tracings and some other drawings yesterday. He is considering doing a build thread on this forum to show how the Blue Angel wing and stab is made from the plans and tracings. I’m looking forward to Dan’s thread and to see my wing during the template construction and cutting.
To be continued…
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I made a spare copy of the plans to cut up for templates. These will be rubber glued to the plywood and balsa stock and then cut out with my Dremel Moto-Shop jig saw. The firewall is not shown on the plans but I’ll create a template from the top and side views.
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The Spring Air retract order arrived today. What super great quality! I see that the units are a little different than my 1991 vintage units that I’m using in the Tiporare. The new units have an improved aluminum pivot block that is the full width of the retract frame providing more bearing surface for the locking pin and a improved locking system. The frame is thicker as well.
With the special 25% discount Spring Air is offering the cost was $150 plus $6 shipping.
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One of the things I always liked about the old Rom-Air retracts is that they would stay retracted for transporting and aircraft storage. While I was ordering my new Spring Airs they suggested a simple solution to keep the Spring Airs retracted. I just made a small wire retainer with a ribbon attached to it so it would not get lost. Pretty slick!
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That is one of those things you look at and say "why didn't I think of that".
I know! Silly simple and easy! They said that they could be stored retracted without damage to the spring. It takes very little to hold them retracted. The wire I used is not even spring steel.
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Close ups of the improved design of the Spring Air retracts compared to the older units. The pivot block is wider providing a better locking surface with the locking pin, stronger support with the frame sides and a larger bore for the strut attachment. The strut adapter can be adjusted and clamped AFTER the flats are ground on the strut to fine tune the strut alignment. They have changed the slots in the side frame so that the locking pin drops into a dwell to improve the locking force and the frames are thicker with strengthening webs on the mounting flanges. A larger piston is also used to lift heaver gear with less air pressure. And the best part is that they are engineered, manufactured and assembled right here in the good old USA.
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After further inspection of the Dave Brown spinner I found a nick in one side of the blade cutout, so I sent it back with the adapter to have Tower replace it with a Tru Turn FAI 2 1/2” spinner LXKD68 and Tru Turn adapter. Tower is super great about returns and pay the return postage as well.
I’m still waiting for my Dynamic Balsa order and they say I should have it next Wednesday. I’m getting impatient to get the balsa dust flying!
I found a NIB OS 61 SF ABC-P #17712 for my Blue Angel on ebay that one of my fellow ebay bidders let me have for only $183.51 and only $2.50 more than he wanted to pay! Thank you fellow ebayer, it’s for a good cause and for a world class “classic”! I paid about $25 more than the last one I got on ebay last year, but they don’t come up for auction often and I need it now. That gives me one new one running in the Tiporare, one for the Blue Angel and one NIB for back up. Not sure why I end up have three engines of each type, three Webra 61s, three RJL K.61s, three OS 61 SFs, etc.
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