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    Laser cutting wing/fuselage parts?

    So where is my 2 seat low wing retractable gear aerobat kit???? The reason I'm asking is I'm thinking of trying out a few ideas and just wanted to see if swapping out some stuff for laser cut or CBC router'd parts and just experimenting. See how they stand up.
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    Laser cutting wing/fuselage parts?

    Ok, that's one question down. How about a fully sheeted wing?
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    Laser cutting wing/fuselage parts?

    Just throwing this out there for comments. I was helping a friend move his wings to storage out of his shop. They're all wood and light weight, and very labour intensive, with having to bow the top and bottom stringers, and then add the internal cross bracing etc. then about a week later as I...
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    Proposed F4F project

    Whoa.................. That is almost exactly what I'm talking about! 5/8 though may be hard to shoe horn me in, but scaling that up to 75-80% would do the trick. A small block Gm, or V-6 would make that a really hot plane too...I wonder if I can find the plans for it somewhere......
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    Proposed F4F project

    DUH! Smacking my head! Ok, found some Jurca projects in various stages on the net. Then as I was on my contemplation chair this morning, I happened to pick up a book and it just happened to fall open to a page with a cutaway view of a Hurricane. Lightening struck!Welded steel frame with...
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    Proposed F4F project

    Re: Re: Hmmmm I know exactly what you mean! I used to spend quite a bit time in central Washington and Oregon, and the farmers and I would get into terrific (albeit, friendly) arguments over everything from WWI, to trucking! God bless'em, salt of the earth people, slightly misinformed. Lol, I...
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    Proposed F4F project

    Hmmmm So after some head scratching, I think some of the previous posts are bang on. That's gonna be some very narrow landing gear, with that HUGE wing, yeah, that would make for some hairy landings in a cross wind. So as much as I would love an F4F, I think this is a dead end. I briefly...
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    Proposed F4F project

    Inspiration! So I was at a local winery taking a break while paying off my wife for this project, (didn't have to buy 1 horse for her, nooooo, she wanted 3!) and on a complete flight of fancy, I started looking at wine casks...... And this is what I came up with! (please don't lynch me....Ok...
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    RR Merlin Build

    Possible information mine for you. If you're looking for Merlin information, the Langcaster museum in Nanton Alberta may have what you're looking for. Last time I was there they had 3 of the 4 engines overhauled and running. I had just happened to be there on the day that they opened up the...
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    Proposed F4F project

    No illusions here ;) Please do not hold back opinions, suggestions, even blunt criticism, I have had much worse burden my shoulders.Here is my starting time line for this project. 2-3 years of data collection, education, and basic design. (wildcat measurements, scaling, and a course or two...
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    Proposed F4F project

    Thread title I blame my phone for the erroneous thread title. 'To err is human, to really screw things up requires a computer....' I will be fixing that as soon as I get home tonight at 2am ish...... I'm pretty comfortable with wood and metal, but, I'm thinking composites are the way to go. 1...
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    Mustang replica G-TSIM newly completed in UK videos

    UK Mustang replica Beautiful! And I agree about the music! Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, that was music! And I'm only 35! Of course I have to listen to today rock though, otherwise my contemporaries will look at me funny.... Its my dirty litte secret lol! Back to that beautiful...
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    Proposed F4F project

    So I wanna build a plane.... Much easier said than done! The simple things are done, like power. M-14PF @ 400 hp is where I'm starting. So that gives me around an 80% sized airframe. Lots of room for me @ 6'2 and a passenger behind me. Another bonus of the F4F, is the simplified wing. No...
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    F6F Hellcat???

    Just playing devils advocate...... I'm not saying copy the plans directly, but they would be a good starting place for an 80-90% scale wooden craft with a wooden semi-monocoque fuselage. You would have to remove some weight on the formers, and redesign the firewall area as well as the main spar...
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    Asphalt bound hi-flyer

    Hi everybody! Well were do i begin? It was a crisp fall day in 1975 when my mother told my fath.......... Ok not that far back. My love fair with aircraft started when i was 4 and my dad piled us into his car and took me and the rest of the family to my first airshow. We all left after 2 hours...
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    F6F Hellcat???

    Hi, here's my 2 cents worth. Fascinating thread first off. Why not up size a set of scale R/C aircraft plans? Here's my reasoning ( im a trucker so i just spent the last 16 hours and 1256 km contemplating this). Personally i would go with wood. Quality aircraft grade plywood for the formers and...
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