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Old 02-24-2019, 04:42 PM
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Actually, the fwd fuse bowed out around F-2 (where the sides bend to meet the firewall) measuring at 2.760" and the inside of the aft fuse section measures at 2.754"; interference of .006" (that's w/o covering) causing enough drag to be disconcerting... After all, .025" is almost not worth adding. Ended up adding a total of 1/16" to the center length of the aft fuse section. Bonded the five short pieces into one half and then joined the two halves to complete the "adjustment". Content now with the strength and clearance.

Found some scrap fiberglass sheet (.025" T) and began fabricating lots of glass "washers" to use for bearing surfaces, spacers, and retention means for the main hinge knuckle, and wing panels.















Taped magnets to fwd and aft fuse cross sheeting and tested the conversion to recovery phase in this short vid here:

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