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<\/a><\/p>\nI couldn’t help myself and took my light-weight He.178 JetCat (6.5 grams light for a 10.5″ span!) outside on a calm morning this week.\u00a0 It certainly shows potential, but it is hard to trim in my yard:\u00a0 I had it bouncing off all four “walls” (tree lines) in my back yard.\u00a0 I’ll get some Gurney flaps on it and hope to get it flying like I want, but that will need to wait until Indoors.<\/p>\n
I’ve been concentrating my drawing time on the Gene Smith Cessna Cardinal (21.5″ span).\u00a0 Gene designed it as Keel and Former.\u00a0 I think I finally have the shapes of the formers finalized, along with stringer placement (12 stringers in addition to the four keels).\u00a0 To me, this is the hardest part -not only do I have to locate the stringer notches on each former, but I have to make sure the notches on ALL the formers result in a nice smooth flowing line, avoiding dog-legs in the stringer as the test build is completed.\u00a0 Usually, I have to change the location of one or two notches when I start to build.\u00a0 I’ve got the formers about 95% converted to parts\/cut layout and the sheet placement has started – about 60% complete.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boy, you take a couple of days off for Thanksgiving and the orders pile up!\u00a0 I’m working on them, but people seem to be stocking up on supplies (lots of little things).\u00a0 Also, lots of orders for parts that require … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Well, it’s time to finish my lunch and get back to making those parts!<\/p>\n