<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Schweighofer Alpha Jet Project (Part 5)</font></font></span>[/b]</p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Building of the master model</font></font></span></p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">There are many methods and ways to get to a satisfying result. Peter Gl&uuml;ck builds his master models of Styrofoam blocks which are all placed flat on the work desk. His reference is always the desk surface which is absolutely straight.</font></font></span></p>

</p><span lang="EN-GB" new="" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: ">It&rsquo;s very important to cut the blocks exactly in 90&deg; angles. For this Peter has built this hot wire cutting machine to guarantee this exactness.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Building of the fuselage</span></p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The gluing surface between two blocks is always the centre line of the model: </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Therefore you get automatically the exact centre line for gluing the formers</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Furthermore Peter always finds the exact centre line independent how much material he has cut or sanded. Finally all the blocks for the fuselage are being glued together. Then the Styrofoam is sawed and sanded to get the correct form of the model.</span></p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">After this work we had the first real impression of the giant size of the Alpha Jet.</span></p>

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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Nice weekend!</span></p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Mario Walter</span></p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Modellsport Schweighofer</span></p>

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