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Old 02-04-2016 | 12:25 PM
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It's February and cold shop has prevented much advancement in the project except CAD drawings and doc. research.
Also there was plenty of maintenance due for the rest of the fleet!
The idea is to offer 2 options: a full vacuum molded kit and a build up wing/stab with a 3 piece fiberglass fuse. The 3 piece fuse is for shipping overseas purposes and to later offer the option of the Mk XIV tail and cowl.
Doing more research on the Mk11, I noticed it uses the older carb intake as in the Mk V/VII series. I found this photo of the subject airplane to confirm. This tells me most of the "profiles" are using the Mk IX config.



Also there are windscreen differences since the Mk11 and the Mk XIX did not have an armored screen.



Here is John Blyth posing for the camera, notice smooth windscreen.

More to come soon,

JG
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