N/P Huricane!

Okay, the struts are made from 2 pieces of I believe them to be either 1/8 or 1/16th plywood. You should have gotten them in one of the bags of precut parts. They are abt 8-10 inches long (sorry, I'm at work and I'm trying to remember the dimensions) and 1 inch wide. Sheet #2 will show how they are to be shaped, along with what rib to "notch" and where, although I didn't do that. I went ahead and attached them to the inside (towards the fuselage that is) side of the ribs. I used 5 min epoxy to attach them with no cutting into the ribs to make sure there was no question of the structural integrity. I then took a piece of 1/8 X 1/8 basswood stick and cut it the length of the rib from front webbing to rear webbing, slid it next to the strut and CA'd it in. From there I put on the capstrips. I wish that I could draw it out and attach it here, but I'm very limited to what I can do at work.

I was also thinking of doing the separate servos, since that what was suggested to me by some of the folks in my flying club, but just looking at the cost per servo, just can't do it......My Wife's pretty good about my hobby, but if she finds out that I'm spending more on 1 kit than on both of my other 2 planes combined, she'll flip! Anyhow, I think I can make the bellcrank system work, just have to verify that I can use a single servo and that it'll work the cranks as needed.

Hopefully, I'll have this thing done before June...I promised my Daughter that I'd fly it over her Graduation/Birthday party with a banner behind it saying Happy Birthday and Graduation to her. She thinks that would be "so cool!" Now I have to figure out how to do that...just another brain excercise.........................[&o]