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Old 11-10-2009 | 05:25 AM
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Default RE: From model to drawing - best method? (vintage pattern plane)

Will B,

I want the replica to be rather close, not 100% but at least as good so the eye from 2-3 meter/yards distance can not tell the replica from the orginal. I have seen Miss Norway plan in a book I have, RCM <font color="#000000">Flight Training</font> Course Volume II, and last in that book it is a description and drawing of Miss Norway.

Biggest problem will probably to get the airfoil shape of wing root and wing tip and fuselage crossections (nose, at wing seat leading/trailing edge, tail etc).
It has been suggested I use an airfoil from another good flying pattern plane and that might be what I do but I have not decided that yet. Maybe I can solve much of fuselage crossection problem with photos from front, back side and also measurements of whole fuselage at critical points.

/Bo