Adrian Page Super Cub

[electroflyer]

   That will be a perfect repair, grafting the front section to the rear.
Nice work!

Glenn

[Michael]

Fuselage front and rear cut and trimmed to match. Later on I'll carefully graft/glue them together with braces.

Braces for the custom landing gear and wing struts glued in.

[Michael]

The fuselage is going together pretty well. There is still a lot to do, but the basic frame is done.

Eventually, I'll get to the wing. Hopefully, I can use some of the parts; I hope I don't have to build a complete new wing.

[Michael]

The fuselage is done, except for the cowl, painting, covering, windows and doors. Servos are in, motor and ECS installed, pilot figure held in by magnets on a platform, and a battery tray with velcro has been installed. I'll leave it like this for now so I can bring it to the build/repair classes.

I did a bit of work on one wing, and it took barely 5 minutes to repair. The other wing is badly damaged, and I'll probably rebuild that from the new kit I have. I'll think about it for a day or so.

[sihinch]

Looking really great Michael.  I'm happy for you.

[piker]

Great job... as always!

[retiredVTT]

Question for Adrian...

How far apart are the wheels..?

I'm making up the wire landing gear from 5/32" wire.

thanks,
Bill

[Michael]

Approx. 14" center of wheel to center of wheel.

[Michael]

For the badly damaged side of the wing, I've decided to take a similar but not quite the same approach as I did for the fuselage.

I'll rebuild the badly damaged or missing wing parts as needed, but instead of building new sections and gluing them together, I'll build those parts directly onto the broken wing.

[retiredVTT]

Approx. 14" center of wheel to center of wheel.

..thanks Michael,

Bill

[Michael]

Outer wing tip repaired. Basically I glued parts of new ribs onto broken ribs, added a few braces here and there, and it's done.

The inner part of the wing will be more challenging. Some thought will need to go into that.

[Michael]

Slow and steady progress.

Inner wing; all new parts.

[Michael]

More progress on the repairs.

Wing halves joined and fitted to the fuselage.

[Michael]

Wing struts attached and adjusted.

Servos and wing wiring installed.

[Michael]

Repair/construction is almost finished, but details seem to take a lot of time.

More than an hour was spent covering the upper window frame, and another hour covering the inner-upper part of the front of the fuselage.