Iron Dog

Thanks for your kind support and continued encouragement, Mike!

Once each of our fairings were sanded to our liking, the next step we took was to make fiberglass main gear doors:

I made a photocopy of the outline of one of the gear doors, as drawn on the plans. I was careful to also include the line representing the wing center section within the photocopy. This aids in proper placement and alignment of the template. Tim cut the paper template out with scissors, while I cut several layers of fiberglass cloth (3 layers of 6 oz., and one layer of 2 oz. cloth, for each gear door).


Layers of 6 oz. cloth cut and ready to apply; with the photocopied template, underneath.



I have aligned the wing center section on my template and wing LE (all photocopied from plans on one 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper) with the actual wing center section and LE of my plane. Each gear doors' outline is then traced directly onto the balsa.



Tim does the same.



Both planes showing the door outlines traced.



A close-up of mine.



A close-up of Tim's.