Doug, what about the new plane? Still buffing?

[Derek Barry]

I have been waiting to hear about how awesome the new plane flies, but I guess he is still rubbing on that thing. Are you installing retracts or what!

[Doug Moon]

Oh,,,I am beat!  I been buffing on that thing for along time and I only have the top of the wing done and the front of the fuse from Canopy forward.  Granted it looks pretty darn good but wow it takes forever.  Especially going over the open bay areas.  You have to be so gentle with it or disaster could strike.  

I hung it the plane hangar for a while and will go back to it in a week or two.  I dont want to rush it and leave out any areas due to exhaustion.

Retracts!  That would be so rad.  I had the gear out of it for while when I was buffing and looks so sleek without gear hanging down.  It looks so fast that way.  

How about you?  What you got going for your Team Plane!!??

[Derek Barry]

Building a take apart Dreadnought. Dallas Hanna is making me some hardware, it is very much like the Shark's hardware. I think he is making some for Dave and Brett too. I am building two planes I have not decided on the second one yet. I want all of my parts to be interchangeable like Paul's Impacts use to be.

[Dallas Hanna]

Building a take apart Dreadnought. Dallas Hanna is making me some hardware, it is very much like the Shark's hardware. I think he is making some for Dave and Brett too. I am building two planes I have not decided on the second one yet. I want all of my parts to be interchangeable like Paul's Impacts use to be.

Should have them in the post for you on Monday Derek.  Only have the binding/gluing holes to go in the main spar units.  Will make the trailing edge bits tomorrow.  It worked out well with Dave's as his is near the same size as yours.

HH

[dave shirley jr]

If I might ask? what is the cost of these units
Dave jr.

[Doug Moon]

Building a take apart Dreadnought. Dallas Hanna is making me some hardware, it is very much like the Shark's hardware. I think he is making some for Dave and Brett too. I am building two planes I have not decided on the second one yet. I want all of my parts to be interchangeable like Paul's Impacts use to be.

Derek,

If you guys have a digital camera please take some pics along the way on the building of the fuse and the take apart sections and how you install them into the wing.  The alignment is so key pics are worth a 1000 words.

[Dallas Hanna]

If I might ask? what is the cost of these units
Dave jr.

Dave, they work out about A$100 each set.  Not sure if you followed any posts previous to this.  I had one on SSW about 18 months back when I built my first one.  With that one, I built the wing as a unit with joiner included in a one piece construction and trailing edge as we would normal and cut later to fit to fuz.  It was a bit tricky when fitting to the fuz but nothing too difficult for anyone with a few full stunter models to their credit.  They are quite strong being made from 6061 alloy and held together with M4 high tensile soc head screws  (sorry about that but we were converted to metric back in the 70s so they are easier to get than imperial ones).  The trailing edge one attaches with an M3 each side from the bottom.

I thought I'd try a different approach on the current one and jig it to the upside down fuz.  I'ts all fitting ok but next time I'd leave the spar joiner a little loose in the fuz (not glued until later) as I would the trailing edge joiner.   I had to crack the glue joint and move it a little for wing zero incidence.  IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH TO GET OUT OF LINE!!   Z Poxy is great fo fixing the unit with bulkhead in position when wing is in right position.   I also found this method better than the first attempt as a rib can be pinned to the fuz side giving the sheeting a neater fit without puting a false rib in to fill the gap (see pic).

A couple of pics showing stubs sticking out of fuz side and wing unit bound with strong thread which was stolen from wife's sewing room.  The Ukranian's use kevlar thread.  The other is of what shows on a wing when mounted to fuz plus a couple showing one of Derek's unit and the rest where they have hatched on my desk belong to Dave Fitz and Bill Rutherford.

Hope that explanation of my experience helps.  It's the only way to travel with a model OS (totally pull-a-part that is) but also great for local transport if you have a small "riceburner" car.  Thankfully I haven't been forced into one of them!!

HH

[john e. holliday]

Those units look absolutly terrific.  How can you sell them at $100.00?   Also are they done on a CNC unit?  DOC Holliday

[Dallas Hanna]

Those units look absolutly terrific.  How can you sell them at $100.00?   Also are they done on a CNC unit?  DOC Holliday

All done on a manual vertical mill with a digital readout John!  The whole unit takes about 4 hrs with numerous coffee breaks     Not something you'd get rich with but it's great to be able to help fellow modellers with specialised items just to make life easier.

HH

[Derek Barry]

Thanks for all of your hard work Mr. Hanna!  I cant wait to get my stuff and get started!