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Old 10-30-2012 | 07:00 AM
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As soon as my wife turned on the football game last night I went out to the shop and started building the wing. I just love balsa and CA glue. I built the right wing half except for the wing tip before half time started. I only swore at Joe Demarco a few times, there were only a few errors drawn into the wing plans, simple things like the length of the slots in the ribs to get them to touch the building board. The question now is how did Joe think anyone could build the tip so it goes through a rib to glue to the LE. It calls for 5 1/16 X 1/8 ply to be laminated around the curve of the tip, very strong but I think I will just cut them in one piece from light ply to save time.
Flying today but when I get home I may get to the second half and demonstrate a very old trick on how to build the second half of the wing when all you have is the plan for one half. In this case the right half is all I have and I don't want to build the left half upside down.