Been frantic every evening and weekend working to get the P20 and EDF versions ready for the painter this week, so sorry for the lack of post but the EDF fuselage build up is essentially the same as the Turbine version.

New items worked on are the canopy, this is a moulded glass unit which requires final shaping to get ot he desired it, there is a line around the moulding to which to trim to. Once you have sanded and adjusted to get a relaxed good fit onto the fusealge opening you can assemble the frame. This comprises of 5 lite ply parts, the easiest way to get them to the correct position is to lay them in the correct order flat on the table and tape the pieces together, if you then lay this into the fuselage cutout the frame will shape to fit, carefully and best to use a second pair of hands here is to lift the corners of the tape while your helped holds the frame in position and wick some cyano along the joints, working you way around the frame corner to corner.

Once tacked the frame can be removed and additional cyano applied to the joints to fully set the canopy frame to shape. It will need a small amount of sanding to leave around a 1.5mm gap around its edge so the canopy will sit on the frame but flush with the fusealge.

I then tacked the frame into the canopy at the top of the front and rear (pre-sanding the areas), I applied some wax to the canopy mating surfaces on the fuselage, ran a bead of aeropoxy around the inside of the canopy against the frame, sat the canopy on the fuselage and taped in place making sure the edges were nice and flush - masking tape applied it was left to dry.

We will be supplying a clear canopy section which can then be added after removing the coresonding section of the canopy, in addition a small vac formed cockpit kit will be available to fit into the opening in the frame base.

The EDF version fuselage is being prepared, with the base formers fitted in place after adding the switch cut out and nose door servo mount as in the P20 version. I plan to install the ESC in the area behind the cockpit, in the spine section so added two openings here for some airflow which will be fitted will aluminium grills once back from paint.

Also a general pic of the revised rudder servo position, EDF fuselage and first set of ducts which were fitted in the P20 version late last night! - pics to follow.

marcs