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Old 11-11-2010 | 10:26 PM
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jofunk
 
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Default RE: 1/4 scale F9F Panther build

Well I cut the wing plan views for the remaining three Panthers. John Roth and I went over to Bob Korans house monday because he said he had a bunch of foam he would give away to someone that could use it. He said it came out of a mountain demo. at the University of Chicago a few years ago. The foam was o.k. but there weren't many clean straight edges, and alot of it must have been glued together with urathane glue. No straight edges means no where to pin on guides to cut the plan view. So I drew the plan view anywhere I could on the block clamped two straight edges to the sides of the work bench, lined up the block with a long ruler, and then just ran the wire down the straight edges. It went pretty good. This is the way to go if you are going to do alot of cutting, you just need a bow that is wider than the table. Out of the cut offs there was enough to get some electric gremlin plan views for indoor flying this winter. After all that there was plenty of scrap.