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Old 01-05-2004 | 09:05 AM
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Default RE: MK Skystar - build started

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Jon
I had fun and games building my wing ended up with an almighty twist in it due to some mistake I had made, ended up getting a set of foam cores made.
How did you construct your wings, did you use a jigging strip or some other method.

Mike
Mike, I don't know how you were able to do that, my wing just came together like a jigsaw puzzle. I built the first half over the plan and the other with the plan hanging on the wall. I built them the same way as boths halves are identical. I did align everything by eyesight at crucial points such as before glueing the top spar, TE/LE, shear webs and sheeting. Such a tapered symmetrical wing should have a jig to be guaranteed straight but I've always relied on eyesight to get it even, and this looks to be the straightest wing I've built so far.