Excellent news Rafa!

I'm really enjoying this build. The Deception is a model of compound curves. Everywhere you look, there is an airfoil - fuse, canopy, wing, stab, fin, tips, cowl...

The 40" size is cool. I chose this span in wanting to keep the physical size of the model small as the build was intended to be for practice. Were I to recommend a smaller size Deception in terms of ease of building, I would recommend the D30 (48" span) - it's just slightly larger and makes some tasks easier. Working with small models is always a bit of a challenge especially when they are all geared up (i.e., retracts, multiple servos, etc.). I'm sure a nice piped 25, a 29 or even a muffled 32 would power the D30 nicely.

BTW, the most complex part of this build was undoubtedly getting the main gear linkage to work as needed. The issue is that ideally you want to set it up before the top sheeting is applied but on the other hand you can't finish and join the wings without them being sheeted. In my case, I saw no easy way to insert pushrods after completing the wing so they were inserted at the moment the panels were sheeted (i.e., early on).

In other news, I've been working on the belly pan. At the moment it is assembled on to the wing and roughly sanded to shape. Further sanding will be required in order to obtain a continuous line from cowl to fixed rudder. As a point of interest, the bottom sheet of the pan was made in two layers; the reason being that I ran out of 1/8" sheet balsa. Since I had some 1/16" sheet, I decided to make the bottom by first applying the sheeting cross grain in three pieces and then covering this with a single piece running length wise. As a side benefit, the pan is very rigid.

to be continued...

David.