Thanks. I have the lower wing(s) sheeted and ready to join. I figured wing panel shots all look about the same so the “filming” has slowed. I was hurrying for a mall show our club is putting on and glued up the wrong spar so I had to unglue it and start over.

Put together a little binder of “documentation” on the Curtiss to set on the table with the fuselage. Boy, just adding the wheels (1/5 scale “vintage” DuBro wheels at 5.6”) sure makes it look like a proper little airplane! I mocked up a foredeck out of light cardboard just to shape her out a bit which also helps. I’ll post an image of her at her first “show”.

Here is the prototype Curtiss “Hawk” in the 1925 brochure and the D-12 engine, both with specs. Kind of faint, but it is amazing what can be dug up on the Internet.

Before I join the wing halves I want to install the servos and flush hatches for the ailerons and finalize what I am going to do about the wing tips. The larger forward portion Phaeton wingtips are much different than the round Curtiss ones. If I build out the center I’ll have to change the whole support design – which is a forward solid balsa block - possibly adding more weight than it will be worth. All I need do for the servos is cut out the inter-rib sheeting and add hardwood strips to screw the 1/8” plywood hatch to. Slotting the hatch for the servo arm is the only fiddly bit with that.

I’ve also been thinking on the aileron control horns and I believe I am going to fashion my own. I was going to use Sullivan horns, but I have a method of “horning” an aileron that I came up with that leaves no visible hardware on the upper and very little on the lower that I may just try here. I was going to fashion the upper-to-lower aileron linkage anchors myself, and a control horn that matches will look better.