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Old 10-21-2005, 12:45 AM
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Intakes are in. I started by trying to trim the ducts to fit inside the lip formed by the intake cowls themselves, as on my BVM F4. This was taking a lot of time and very fiddly. Then the penny dropped. I cleaned out the inner edge of the intakes and pushed the ducting forward through them, result: a perfect fit in no time. I then trimmed the flange on the intake ducting for a reasonable fit and it will then be filled.

Pushing the ducts through the lip means that body filler will have to be used to reprofile the intake lips which will make them much "fatter" (a larger radius) which is exactly the way they are on the real Hawk !

That concludes the basic airframe construction, what follows are small jobs like hingeing doors and fitting canopy etc.

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David Gladwin.
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