Category: Fuselage

Forward Fuselage (3.5h)

I started today with a piece that I can find no mention of in the photo guides. I’m sure it is one of them somewhere but I haven’t found it yet. Anyway, there is a rather hefty strip of metal…

Forward Fuselage First Cleco (30m)

With the baggage compartment completed, it is time to move on to another book – forward fuselage. The joining of the forward and the rear fuselage is one of the plane building milestones, so allons-y! Well, all I had planned…

Baggage Compartment Completion (6.5 hr)

This was actually over two days There are two l-angles on each side of the baggage compartment that attach the baggage floor to the upright and flaperon control cover. These go in the corner and basically stop the whole thing…

Rear Fuselage Internal Components (1hr)

From here there a quite a few pieces of metal that need to be placed inside the rear fuselage and drilled out and it should go together quite quickly. The DVDs for this phase intermix installing the controls with the…

Rear Fuselage Final Assembly (8.5h)

Today was the absolute last day to work on the plane with my Dad’s help and I knew he really wanted to see it finished. I thought we could do it, he didn’t think so but we would give it…