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Old 05-24-2003 | 07:43 PM
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Default Red Box Corsair

Start picking. Not visble is scale exhaust location, in front of wing. Tail wheel is retractable, antenna masts have slots for installation, fuselage is rounded inward in cowl flap area, wing is positive about 1.5 deg, rudder has been re-contoured, and fuselage is gently rounded (not flat) aft of cockpit. Cowl has been shortened by 1/4", making it close to scale.
Wing is assembled but not covered, need to make outboard flaps yet. Wingtips are from my old #102 , which were scratch built by me using B&D drawings. Front gear doors are made by me (as are the ones on #167). Front gear doors are not scale, but more so than the Top Flight ones. Reason for deviations: difficult to make exact scale ones work well with the retracts. I will eventually install the rear main doors on this one also, but not the tail wheel doors. Also not visible is a notch I put in all my Top Flites, on the underside where the tail hook would normally reside, right below the elevator. Another little detail and all it takes is a Dremel with a sanding disk.
Lacking is cockpit kit, altho I will add the headrest.l
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