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Old 05-02-2009, 06:52 AM
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Default RE: Who makes custom canopies and cowls?

Hi there

Don't know if you're still looking but my husband makes canopies and cowls in any scale (within reason!) He has a cnc router and can draw up shapes with a 3D drawing program. I do the 2D stuff - cutting parts/kits from plans in any scale.

Attached are a few pics of the process from the computer drawing of a cowl for a 134" electric Lancaster in the pipe line, the plug and finshed cowl plus the canopy with side blisters from plug to vacuum formed. Also a finished cowl for a 1/5th scale CAC Boomerang. Both these projects are going to be fully moulded composites. Lengthy process but worth it with the detail that can be achieved this way with computer modelling and cnc cutting.

Anyway, if we can help, give a yell


cheers
Patti
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