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Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
John Cooper	Dumas Kit #319, Sparrowhawk	Parked	06-Jan-08 14:40
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Completed model, waiting to be wound. The plane comes in at 102g. Despite the weight, it is a stable flyer, although a little fast.
John Cooper	Dumas Kit #319, Sparrowhawk	Build	06-Jan-08 14:38
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The nose is removable via a nose block that fit into the back piece of the dummy engine.
John Cooper	Dumas Kit #319, Sparrowhawk	Build	06-Jan-08 14:36
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The tail is build from laminations of 2 1/16 inch balsa strips.
John Cooper	Dumas Kit #319, Sparrowhawk	Build	06-Jan-08 14:33
Views : 1975
The lower wing is removable and has paper tubes. Balsa spars attach the wing to paper tubes in the fuselage.
John Cooper	Dumas Kit #319, Sparrowhawk	Build	06-Jan-08 14:31
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Many 1/16 parts of the kit were replaced with 1/32 in order to reduce weight.
John Cooper	Dumas Kit #319, Sparrowhawk	Build	06-Jan-08 14:29
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The upper wings are removable and fit into slots in the wing center section

Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
SteveM	Guillows Series 1400 - F-15 Eagle	Build	06-Jan-08 12:24
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Perfect building weather, too bad I need to run errands. The forecast is for rain all day.
cdwheatley	Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII	Build	06-Jan-08 11:00
Views : 1660
Only thing left to do on this now is to fit the cockpit area, then it's on to the wings.
cdwheatley	Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII	Build	06-Jan-08 10:58
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Top down view.
cdwheatley	Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII	Build	06-Jan-08 10:55
Views : 1592
Close-up of the cowling with the thrust button in position.
cdwheatley	Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII	Build	06-Jan-08 10:55
Views : 1584
More progress.
David Duckett	Guillows Series 2000 - B17 Flying Fortress	Build	06-Jan-08 09:09
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