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  1. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Mounting the cowl today. Using a cowl ring, the top two holes will be accessible from the air inlets and the bottom four from the cabin. It was areal pain glassing the ring to the cowl through the front openings. Ended up using long reach needle nose pliers to the place the small pieces of...
  2. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    The door came out nice and really stiffen it up. Happy with it now. Have the 1 1/2 ounce cloth on the flat surface, once cured and trimmed the flange area will get glassed. Cut the left aileron/flap free and installed the 1/4" balsa trail edge, once the right is cut will begin cutting the...
  3. TonyHallo

    70cc FLEX Ultimate assembly thread.

    If you were to pick one up, how is the tax or duty handled at the border? Just curious. When I was child my family visited Niagara Falls, Canada. My older cousin traveled with us and he bought a pack of small firecrackers there, my dad put in glove box. When we were crossing back to the USA...
  4. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    I hope to build a second with panel lines and rivets in the future. I plan to fly this one in the AMA Pro Am class where the judging is mainly on the pilot. This is a proof of concept so to speak.
  5. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Put the corrugations in the aileron and flaps today, there are 72 corrugations for the ailerons and 89 on the flaps. Glued up a fixture to use with the Dremel router attachment, it looks kinda crappy but it worked very well. The fixture has three points of contact had held the router firm. It...
  6. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Was hoping that the engine and cowl could be mounted to the firewall before it was glued in but that is not the case, even the smallest #0 screws interfered with the cowl so it was epoxied in yesterday, the holes for the nose wheel bearing block were drilled beforehand. Think I will use the...
  7. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    While the SuperFil was curing started working on the interior finishing. Plan to make it like the full scale with a flange around the windows and some depth below. As the vertical strips around the window are added, the remainder of the window openings are cut out. A majority of the windows...
  8. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    The one on the right is finished.
  9. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Along with hinging another one of the tasks that I don't care for is cutting out the air inlets in fiberglass cowls. Always seem to mess it up then try to sand everything flat from the back side. Years ago I seen a wood worker screw a larger piece of Plexiglass to his router base. Not wanting...
  10. TonyHallo

    Scale Sig 1/3 Scale Spacewalker

    Looking good Randy, you will be ready for fabric in no time.
  11. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Have the left wing root matched to the fuselage with SuperFil, once cured it will get sanded down to match the airfoil. A piece of plastic wrap and a little Vaseline will hopefully keep the two parts from joining!
  12. TonyHallo

    70cc FLEX Ultimate assembly thread.

    Well you answered all the questions I would have ask. Attached is my Champ's telemetry log from the NASA scale contest back in September 2024. RB1 and RB2 are the each battery voltage at the redundancy buss and RXB is the battery voltage of the selected receiver, there are three receivers...
  13. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Woke up last night at 3:30 and made it down to the shop to trim the cowl, was just about the perfect time, maybe another 1/2 hour would have been better. Decided to put a little heat on the mold to speed the cure. Inverted the cowl on the 12" disc sander and placed a 1500 watt oil filled...
  14. TonyHallo

    70cc FLEX Ultimate assembly thread.

    Just wondering what batteries you use?
  15. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Got the cowl laid up. Put on 3/4, 1 1/2, and 4 ounce this afternoon, came home from my grandson's basketball game this evening and put in the 6 ounce cloth. There's over two hours of layup work on it, don't know how the fiberglass folks can sell them so cheap! There's a lot of fiddling around...
  16. TonyHallo

    Scale Sig 1/3 Scale Spacewalker

    Randy Is the center section removable or attached? Looking good.
  17. TonyHallo

    70cc FLEX Ultimate assembly thread.

    Do you believe this 70cc bird will need these?
  18. TonyHallo

    70cc FLEX Ultimate assembly thread.

    I don't know if I should like that or not!
  19. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    When I build a wood plane, the wing aligned holes are drilled with the sides together so that a long drill can be used through the fuselage to drill the holes in the wing,this keeps the alignment pins parallel to the wing tube. This is completely different way of building so I had to come up...
  20. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Put the fuselage back on the bench to set the wing incidence, threw the wings on for a photo op. The door just barely clears the wing. Have seven coats of wax on the cowl mold, might be ready to lay up today. Shipping out the dash foam and yokes to SAC today to get price quoted. Pretty sure...
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