Props4ever
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From: Canada,
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Since my last post, both inner wing cores were built and glued to center wing section, this was whole evening's task, after i glued the whole center wing section my next step was to cut out slots for the 3 spars. This was another tricky area to work with, Mike and i both did some brain storming and came up with couple options to do it, first one was to make at fork type of tool to enter the wing from leading edge with square slots in it to cut the spar slots in the core!, well to me it diden't sounded too good, so we came up with another solution, Mike went and made new drawing for the whole center wing section with spar slots in in, then we literally made a jigbox with these spar slots in it and then i placed the wing in the box with proper alingment and both mike and i started to cut the slots with hot wire. Now its looking pretty good.
After we did our center wing section, our diehedrial angle came out to be +6.5 degress on each wing panel, it looked ok by itself but on higher side, so after getting home i assembled whole aircraft and was shocked to see diehedrial being too much as outer wing tips were almost level with H stab!, it diden't looked right to me then, well it was same in Mike's mind also, he Pmed next day and we both got togather to figure what went wrong!, as it seemed as our diehedrial according to my drawings should have been 5 degress!, well after spending another couple hrs on net and going through tons of Connie pictures we concluded that out original diehedrail angle was right on if not less by .5 degrees!, WOW Connies have very high diehedrial angles!.....
At this time most of the foam cutting work have been completed with few things still pending, we decided to those at later date, now i want to thank Mike Emilio for all his genrosity and humblessness to help me out with this project, i am very glad and proud to have Mike as my honest friend....
My next stage is to make engine necelles, i will be commencing on those very shortly and then followed by filling job on the fuselage and then sheeting it, i have decided to used 3/32 sheet all around on the whole project for sheeting purposes, i will add all the build pictures fron starting to present shortly...
Sammy
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