Hey Guys,

Today I was able to cut all the door panels out for the main and the nose gear.

It took some doing with the straight-edge and a few #11 blades, but I was finally able to get a clean enough line to switch to the razor saw to do the final cut-away from the fuselage.

The landing gear was a simple bolt-in affair once I cut the doors out.

In the morning I will begin cleaning out the remaining areas for the flight controls and sorting out the correct hinge clearence for thier movement.

The Draken inner main gear doors are mechanically attached to the struts, the outers will be air-ram operated.

There are also four (4) speed brakes around the aft-fuselage area I hope to duplicate useing clever hinging and air-ram to deploy. I'll have photo's of that as I go thru tomorrow's building session.