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Old 12-08-2012 | 06:09 PM
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Default RE: Swoose, Ready to Fly!

Thank you Jerry, the Swoose is one of those planes everyone loves but you never see them at any of the flying events, land or water? The build isn't that hard and the gull wing was easy to do with the building jig. I did them both as two halves like you would do with most builds. The jig worked so well that both wings incidenced almost perfect. That was a first for me and the first time I tried using a jig to build a gull wing. Mr. Ziroil even gives you the angle to make the jig with on the plans. He only mentions it in passing on the build article though. I knew I would build one some day and I cut out and kept the airicle from MAN in 1989. It was some help but he glossed over everything and went into no real detail.
It's just a flat bottom wing but the plane looks sleek and fast, we'll see soon.