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Old 03-07-2008 | 08:18 PM
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ORIGINAL: rabbid fly

A few pics.
Thanks very much for posting the images of your Blue Angel. It’s really interesting for me to see a real kit built Blue Angel and see how the kit parts look when they are assembled. I’ve had to study the plans and pictures a lot and hope I got it right! I mostly tried to think how a meticulous builder like Yoshioka would have done it.

From your pictures it looks like I’m pretty close. Your vertical stab front edge intersects the fuselage differently and someone has added a lot of fillet work around the tail that I did not see on the plans. The area around the front lower part of the stab where it intersects with the fuselage shows a very complex shape that is not reflected on your build. Yours is built more like the first kit in the series but with the full rudder like the second series.

Just a thought, you might be able to straighten the wing using heat. Moving the wing slowly over a hot electric stove burner (up from the burner about 12”) sometimes lets you bend the wing back in shape. You will be surprised how much flex the wing has.