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Old 01-09-2022, 10:05 AM
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Jwhitacre1
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With the wing ready for sanding I moved to the fuselage. I got a good amount of small stuff out of the way this morning. I put a balsa cap on top of turtle deck behind the cockpit to the vertical stab, installed pushrod guides, epoxied in tail wheel mounting plywood, put an additional rail in the cockpit on each side that I wanted to add, and put in the framework for the bottom fuse behind the wing. I decided to make the fuse bottom semi-round after a lot of thinking it over. It added more work to do making the formers but will look world's better than flat. Once the formers dry I'll sheet the bottom with 1/16 balsa. Next time I work on this the under wing and battery hatch formers will be added to make the whole underside match.I didn't add mounting points today for the tail bracing but will be using cut dowel rod sections for that. I believe it was a Sig Cub that used that method and it worked great.