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THE FUSELAGE
1) Cover the fuselage in a similar way to the flying
surfaces using a glue stick and thinned PVA on
overlapping joints or where the glue stick cannot
reach. The following is a suggested order for
covering the fuselage:
On each side:
a) One piece running from F2 to the sternpost
at the rear, along the top edge of K1.
The bottom:
a) One piece running from F2 right up to the rear.
The top:
a) Cover the remainder of the top with a triangle
shape between the top edges of K1 each side
from F7 right to the rear over all of the stringers.
2) Allow the glue to go off for a few hours or
preferably overnight, then shrink the tissue.
You need not constrain the fuselage in any way
as the tissue shrinkage should be equal on both
sides and no warps should occur.
3) Cut away any tissue to clear the slots and fit
the cabane struts following the instructions
on the plan .
4) Fit the ‘black’ portion of the bottom stringer
that runs from halfway into F5 forwards to F4
and the rear cabane strut – thus completing the
front cockpit.
5) Trace paper patterns U (2 off), V and W onto
standard printer paper (80gsm) following the
solid lines.
6) Using a glue stick, glue the paper parts to an
area of tissue, leaving a gap between them.
Note for paper parts U, stick one face up and
the other face down to make ‘handed’ parts
7) Once the glue has dried, cut them from the
tissue sheet, leaving extra all the way round as
indicated by the dotted lines on the plan.
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