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Old 11-07-2006, 01:37 PM
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Default RE: 88" Flying Quaker build

Small update:
All wood parts complete except some strengthening of the wing tips and joining the two wing panels.
Hinges done and everything sanded to 180grit and prepped with balsaloc.
I will finish the wing later, right now I wanted to move on to my favourite part of building, the covering.

I've never worked with Solartex before so this was a new experience. I finfd it easy to work with and in some applications seem to put even Ultracote to shame .
...In fact, I think this is my new covering material, seem to have lots of advantages and is very user friendly at the same time! (Strong, textured surfaced for good looks, goes easy around curves with the help of a heat gun, nice transparent effect)

....Anyways, not much to write, horizontal stabilizer is covered and will be followed by elevator surface and then the fin/rudder.
The idea I have is to finish the plane in this cream colour and trim it off with dark green in the classic quaker scheme...
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