View of the nose ring, Dave Brown (50-60) engine mount, fire wall, fuselage formers, and front former doubler. The wing will have a ¼” plywood tongue that will fit into the square opening in the front fuselage former like is used on the Howard Engineering kits. I’m moving the firewall back ½” to make more room for the longer engine. The old Veco 61 that the Cold Duck was designed around was pretty short.

My Dynamic Balsa order shipped last Friday so it should arrive next week with my balsa supply and foam wing core. I also ordered a canopy, aileron linkage, Dave Brown Southern Sorghum foam wing glue and a Goldberg 2” white spinner from Tower. The 10 ¼’ Great Planes canopy is shorter than what I wanted but canopy choices are pretty limited now-a-days.