I found some of the photos of building the B-36 fuse. I will place a few posts with a couple of photos in each.

The first photo shows the fuselage framed up but not yet sheeted. You can see carbon fiber tubing used for fuse spars. The 2 spars on the bottom run the full length of the fuse. The top spar runs from the nose to wing saddle. Behind the wing saddle I switched to a pair or balsa spars that will straddle the leading edge of the fin.

In the second photo you can see that it was not possible to have the carbon fiber fuse spars support the 2 front fuse formers. My solution was to incorporate 4 notches in the 5 front fuse spars, and place 1/8 x 1/4 inch balsa sticks in the notches to hold it all in place until I could sheet the nose. You can see that one of the fuse formers does not have an opening in the center to lighten it up. This is a plywood former that will be used to support the front retracts. You can see that it is tied in to all 3 carbon fiber tubes. I have also built a temporary support that holds all 3 fuse spars during building so that this long cigar shaped fuse comes out straight.

That's it for this post. Mike