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Old 10-28-2005 | 08:46 AM
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Mike,

I have will have my camera with me today. If I can stop by my Dad's after work I will snap a few detail pictures. He made a removable chin cowl from balsa. Then he strengthend it with Fiberglass mat (available at home depot, about 2 Oz wide weave great in two layers to strengthen curves -- 3 to 4 if your making just a fiberglass cowl). He used hardwood tabs on the firewall for the #2 button head screws.

If your interested in shaping and making a cowl out of fiberglass, its pretty easy and there are a couple of methods.

Caffeenman has a great website:
http://airfieldmodels.com/informatio...cowl/index.htm

Here is my attempt:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_33...tm.htm#3310709

and installed on the plane (left-overs reassembled -- but easy enough for a 6 year old to fly)
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_34...tm.htm#3405671