ORIGINAL: Teymour
I have a question that I have been wanting to ask , now that we have a thread on this build. When I built my progressive kit, The nose of the plane was too short to house the motor. I powered mine with a Mvvs quickee motor. I had to add about 3/4 of an inch to the nose. Is this normal? I was under the impression that all 40 sized motors were about the same in size. In some of the pics I have seen of other Flying Machines there is a gap between the nose and the spinner..in others there is no gap. did I make a mistake when building my kit that caused this? The reason I ask is that I will be building one of the short kits and I do not want to make the same mistake again.
ps..yes the motor is pushed back as far as possible on the mount.
Today while trial fitting the cowl parts I noticed that the supplied laser cut parts are going to be to short to fit my 55AX motor. However, I should point out that most of the kits I have built have required some adjustments to the supplied cowl balsa. So this is really not unusual. I will just use some of my balsa sheet supply to cut appropriately sized parts.