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Dave Thomas |
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Fitting the canopy frame |
The moulding around the windshield overlaps the canopy. This is my front windscreen bow glass fibre fairing. I have modelled this so that the canopy slides under it. Making the junction very smooth. This is my PFA inspector's (and previous project owner) idea. I hope I haven’t added much weight with these amendments. I think I may be going to excess on fairings for the plane. I have also filled all the aileron/flap top surface gaps as seen in one of the newsletters. |
The canopy fitted |
It's starting to look like a Falco |
Hinge fairings I have read all the newsletters and have made fairings for the back of the hinges. The front fairings were made by the loan of moulds constructed by the G-OCAD group. The rear are actually a NACA laminar flow airfoil section that matched up perfectly with the front fairings shape. I don't know whether G-OCAD's fairings were actually from this airfoil. I guess so. |
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