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Old 11-22-2006 | 04:57 PM
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Default RE: Jim LeRoy Pitts Bulldog - Scratch Build Thread

Not much visible progress to report, really. Formers are all glued in, front turtledeck sheeting is in from F3 up to F1. Yesterday was pretty much a "leave the plane alone for a day" day, as work got in the way (hate it when work does that)

I HAVE, however, ordered a few things. Picked up a 1/3 scale instrument set from JTEC, and just bought a G-62 off E-Bay. Finally decided 'yeah, a smaller motor would fly it...but the G-62 will swing a decent sized 3 blade prop for "scale" appearance and, hey, extra power won't hurt." The Zenoah will, of course, head off to RC Ignitions for Ralph's treatment.

Also spent some time up at the LHS today, doing a little hangar flying, of course. Somewhere in all the tall tales, I was able to toss some ideas around, and I think I'm pretty solid now on how to do the view panel on the bottom of the fuse, and picked up some thoughts on some of the finer details as well.

later today or tomorrow, I'll likely put the fuse aside for a while, and clear off the build table for 2 smaller "projects within the project", the tail feathers and the full open cockpit.