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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    Now to add the upper nose planking,one strip at a time either side gradually reaching the top where things get interesting ! The nose planking after sanding smooth,any thin areas were dealt with at the back with plastic balsa (balsa dust added to aliphatic adhesive stired into a paste) The...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    A good sanding down and blending of the empenage has taken place,the navigators rear area has been cut out and black card from a chocolate box glued into place,some detailing will be added before the area is closed with the rear canopy glazing,instrument panel detail has been added and a start...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    So over the fuselage goes into the cradle to steady it while I complete the stringering and other small fittings around the empenage. There were no slots in the cockpit bulkhead but these were marked and cut before stringers were added,at this point just below the former shown the planking...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    The main construction below the lower crutch has been completed,now I have turned the entire lower fuselage over and made a simple cradle to make it easier to work on the upper fuselage. The lower fuselage with all rear stringers in place and sheeted area pulled at wing attachment position...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    This morning I added the two wing seat pieces,the front lower spine and made up the tailwheel assembly;hit a problem with the wing seats as they do not fit as per the plan so to rectify the problem I took a slither of wood from former F2 so the piece fits snug against it,the other aft former...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    We continue to work on the keel,now the temporary cross pieces are added between the keel strips,these will be removed at some stage once their job has been done. The instructions are very vague in places and tend to focus on the Co2 powered version,for this it appears that the front nose...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    A modest start by splicing the two crutches for the fuselage then pinning into place for the lower formers to be installed. A simple wood splice re-inforced with a strip of wood on one side forms the basic fuselage crutch. A line of pins where the crutches are held into place pending lower...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    A concentrated effort has paid off to cut all of the printwood parts from the sheets,some of the parts were badly spaced out onto the sheets making blade access very tricky but I managed with ingenuity to find suitable tools to do do the job,one tool that is useful for tasks like this is a...
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    Build Along With Wonwing-FAIREY FIREFLY

    The new build is the FAIREY FIREFLY a kit made by Aerographics,the model is a very impressive 25 inches wingspan and construction is built on two crutches for the fuselage ie botton and top sections of the fuselage which are joined together once built,this is a fairly complex model as nothing on...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    The little Velie Monocoupe made a successful maiden flight today in the garden,I did not pursue it further as it wanted to escape over the hedge ! once the weather is suitable I will fly her again and make a small video of the way she flies.
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    A quick tour of my rubber powered flying scale model aircraft collection.

    As I await better weather to fly my models here is a quick video made today of the mostly rubber powered flying scale model aircraft collection that I have been building for many years.
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    Time for assembly,I plan to do a short maiden test hop in 6 hours time when hopefully the wind should have dropped by then,meanwhile some careful assembly. Tail assembly drying out over the radiator,just the wing struts to add now and it looks like a bit of nose ballast will be needed to get...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    The assembly and covering stages have been reached. The blood red tissue is ordinary commercial wrapping material,I wanted red so this was all I could get,the material is non wet strengthened so requires great care in applying it,once shrunk and doped up it will be fine. The upper surfaces...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    I have been working on the cockpit glazing and wings,as predicted the wing fixing has been modified from bands on small hooks to a fixed one piece mainplane,I did envisage all kinds of issues with wings with hooks that would probably keep moving out of line and fiddly to put together as well,now...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    Time to build the wings,not keen on their construction which is an overkill for such a tiny model as this,the main spars and rear spar are threaded through the ribs which is fiddly to line everything up,in the end I simply fixed the trailing edges of the ribs into the TE slots juggling the wings...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    Today we complete the dummy engine,sand down the undercarriage fairings,work on the specially shaped vintage wheels and start the wing centre section. Trial fit into the nose plug of the dummy engine cylinders.a balsa sheeting is added underneath the nose,we are going to need nose weight with...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    The fabricated undercarriage has been bound and fitted to the fuselage. Undercarriage leg fairings will cover the 22 swg wire. The tail skid was made from three laminations of 1/64th miralyte ply laid up in a simple jig made from pins to get the required curve,the skid actually springs too.
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    Today we will start to build the nose block and dummy engine assembly,after studying the way the cylinders go I split the nose block into two with a practical hole size for access to the rubber motor,the photographs explain the build better. Also I made up the undercarriage legs and soldered up...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    The next task is to properly join the sides with cross pieces at the rear of the fuselage top and bottom,with a pair of tweezers and cutting each cross piece in turn these are glued into place,although the plan calls for cracking the joint just aft of the fuselage at the point of the wing...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    Having carefully made two sides one on top of the other separated by membranes of cellophane the sides are carefully sliced apart with a thin knife blade,two formers are made up from balsa stripwood and used for the initial join together of the box fuselage,keep everything nice and square...

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