An ambitious project - scratch-built Avro York

[Michael]

These fuselage sides (lacking entire nose/cockpit and tail cone) were much more work than one might imagine.

Straightening balsa sheets edges and gluing them together, lots of measuring, marking the outline, cutting and sanding. It took several hours.

[piker]

Coming along nicely!

[Michael]

Thanks, Robert.

More slow and steady progress: fuselage formers, partial fuselage sides, and partial bottom sheeting.

[Michael]

Designing/building the outer wing panels from scratch.

[Michael]

Parts for one wing outer section are cut to shape and size, and set up (no glue).

I have not prepared sheeting, cap strips, nacelles nor servo bays.

The parts behind the wing are for the other side; I still have to cut the other side's ribs to shape.

[Polecat]

Nice work Michael, you are a real old school builder.

Ken

[Michael]

Thanks, Ken.

"old school builder"

That could mean:

- I'm an old-school builder, in that I build model airplanes in a time-honoured fashion

or

- I'm a builder of old schools

or

- that I'm old and I build schools.

[Michael]

Coffee and ribs for breakfast.

[Michael]

Now to make plywood dihedral braces.

Webbing, wing-top sheeting, cap-strips, ailerons, sanding, nacelles and servo installation still to be done.

[Michael]

Starting the webbing, sheeting and cap-strips.

[Gregor77]

Michael, what is in that yellow cup?  That's incredible!

[Michael]

Back to it after a week of all kinds of work.

Tail section, so far, took me all day today.

[Michael]

Partially sanded, beveled, hinged (not glued) and assembled.

[Michael]

Wing top sheeted and cap-stripped. rudder servos installed.

This has been a lot more work than I anticipated, and there's a lot more to go!

[Michael]

Retracts customized, bent, cut, fiddled-with, fitted, installed, and tested. About 4 hours work.