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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 20-May-17 11:35 |  | | Views : 706 | | "There was once a simpler time when the lines of a model airplane could have an almost magical effect on a modeler." |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 20-May-17 11:33 |  | | Views : 696 | | The kit plane has a wrap around windshield, side windows, and a transparent cabin roof, that I modified to cover the whole roof, and you can really see the construction framework and rubber motot inside the fuse. I also thickened up the wing struts and landing gear struts. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 20-May-17 11:29 |  | | Views : 741 | | KIT FEATURES: Instead of a thrust bearing for the prop shaft, there are 2 kit-supplied eyelets, that go into the front end and the rear end of the prop shaft hole in the noseblock, and the prop shaft spins inside these eyelets. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 20-May-17 11:25 |  | | Views : 737 | | These planes were the pinnacle of aviation excitement as they had classic lines, a graceful appearance, were sleek and slender, and they had "character"! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 20-May-17 11:22 |  | | Views : 667 | | The 22" SIG "CABINAIRE", designed to fly free flight rubber powered, by Paul McIlrath, is reminiscent of the Vintage High Wing Cabin planes of the 1930s "Golden Age of Aviation" - the 20 year period between WW1 and WW2 - an era of elegant a/c design and tremendous advances in Aviation. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 17-May-17 15:46 |  | | Views : 816 | | All glued up and ready to try again when there is no wind. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 17-May-17 15:44 |  | | Views : 809 | | Stab repair is completed. The top of the back of the fuse has a tiny 1/16" square block of balsa glued on top of it, for positive incidence for the Stabilizer. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 17-May-17 15:40 |  | | Views : 719 | | Stab repair for broken leading edge. The original tissue color has faded in three years. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 17-May-17 14:39 |  | | Views : 822 | | I forgot to get my Hangar in order (Senior's Moment) - SIG "CABINAIRE" Kit # FF-20, wingspan 22" completed Oct 1, 2014 - weight 42 grams, $24.50 - no scale as it is not a real plane. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 16-May-17 21:21 |  | | Views : 704 | | Bad pic - you can barely see it, head high, going left. I let her go with 300 winds and it immediately went into a sharp left turn and steep dive and CRASHED into the soft grass !!! The right stab was twisted from a broken leading edge where I had not put in a gusset. "If at first you don't succeed ..." I am determined to get this figured out and get some good flying pics like Mlriley does. Back to the drawing board and stab repair ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 16-May-17 21:14 |  | | Views : 729 | | Handwinding the rubber with the help of a couple of baseball fan buddies - can you ever do a lot of winds without breaking the rubber when you use a winder ! One 12" loop of 1/8" rubber, stretched and broken in, and lubed - I tested 300 winds = a 25 second power run, 450 winds = a 37 sec power run. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 16-May-17 21:08 |  | | Views : 795 | | Winding Stooge, 22" Sig Cabinaire, me and Trapper - out to Jackson Park to give rubber band free flight a try. The Winding Stooge needed adjustments for the holes for the piano wire through the rear aluminum tube motor mount, as the plane would not fit - interference from the stab with the uprights of the stooge. |
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