While I debate on making a new lighter wing ( I welcome your comments regarding if I should do this or not ), it's onto cutting the belly pan.

I took the opportunity of making a glass fibre mould incase I accidently break the original or decide in years to come, build another Aurora

The mould was made from polyester glassfibre resin, 163g cloth with chopped matt strand cloth. Lucky for me with Atlanta 60 help via email, the mould worked out perfectly.

I made a tempory bellypan from one layer of 163g cloth. This was very flexiable. This was used to cut away until the belly pan fitted around the YS91. Once happy, I drew the cutout locations of the cylinder head and exhaust onto the original kit supplied belly pan.

It's a tight fit, I'll tell you with a YS91. Those of you who have experience of the soft mounts know the engines rock quite a lot on tickover. therefore more machining is required so the engine will not catch on the bellypan at tickover.

So here we are, I'll keep you posted as I progress with the build. Till then I welcome all your comments, constructive or not, we can all still learn something.