I have recently inquired about the availability of the DuBro quarter turn latch, as well as some questions on the size of our cockpit openings. I thought it time to bring the Brotherhood up to date on the progress of my build. Below is a photo of the rear of the cowl on my Yellow Aircraft P-47 showing the small latch. As you can see, it is quite small and neat. It's pretty secure for it's small size.

As for my cockpit, Idecided to take off the top over the cockpit and replace it with a much smaller and hopefully, scale opening. Before it took the sheeting off, Imade a laminated anf formed replacement. Since Ihad no 5/32 sheet balsa I laminated it from 3/32 and 1/16" soft balsa. Icovered the fuselage with plastic film so Iwouldn't glue my work to the fuselage. Iglued up the required lengths of 3/32 and 1/16 sheets and then soaked them in water. Iapplied a carpenters wood glue to the inside surfaces, stuck the two sheets together and taped them down over the cockpit area. I am very happy with how they came out, and the thickness was right on. Fitting it in place was no problem. I"m glad Ihad to do this, as it will make putting in the instrument panel, seat, sidewalls, etc., much easier. I'm not going for a full depth cockpit, due to radio space requirements.

From checking on my three views, and looking at photos of full scaleWACOs, I think Iwill also re-do the windshield as what is proivided does not match the drawing at all. It's too narrow and too short lengthwise. Ithink I'll check on using a piece of gutter flashing for the frame.

I'm using a homemade control horn for the elevators with internal flex cable for control. The horn was braized on for security. Rudder will be pull-pull.