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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Mark Scarborough on July 14, 2007, 05:24:52 PM
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Well as documented of late, I managed to initiate my Gee Bee in Puyallup. I have begun repairs so thought I would post some updates for those who commented on liking the plane in my other post. Just a quick refresher, its a brodak P-40 profile wing that I had with my own design wrapped around the wing. She flew awesome until the dreaded outside squares. no damage to anything forward of the flaps except a scuff on the nose and one on the wing tip. so I am rebuilding her, we have the technology, she will be stronger faster, able to ,,,,,, um sorry got off on a tangent there #^ #^
any way, a couple picts, in the process I am reengineering one noted weekness in the fuse layout.
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Never sa die!! You've got a great attitude there Mark. The repairs are coming along nicely. She'll be good as new in no time.
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Yep, Mark, she'll be better than new. y1
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I just wish Mark lived closer. He's a great guy. And the GeeBee looks pretty good too.
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Randy, your gonna make me blush,, thanks seriously,, and I wished I lived closer too, if it were half the distance, I would make weekend advetures out of it. I would love to watch you build.....
anyway, to cut to the chase, heres where the Gee Bee is now. got the new aft fuse grafted on. wht a pain in the ,, working around the wing and all, the splice of course was right in the range of where the splice was so sanding was a pain,, ah well, alls well that ends well. she is straight, and stronger than before. I skinned under the stringers on thefuse with 1/16 and then did 1/16 stringers instead of the 1/8 stringers I had before without the skin. It is REALLy torsional resistant compared to before even after I had silkspaned it. Looks good so far. more picts later. now its on to the control surfaces!
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Ty, with my track record lately, everything I do is monokote totally ( um ok so I painted the fuse on the vector.) in the original post on this I noted that the fuse was a little bit to twisty for my tastes so I silkspanned it first then monokoted it. all the trim is Ultracote over the Monokote. It flew so dang nice I couldnt just let it sit, so hence the rebuild. It didnt hurt the wing or front half of the fuse aside from some minor scrapes.
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Mark,
You do very good Monokote work. Better than me. The appearance on the GeeBee was very good.