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| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 25-Jan-16 23:18 |  |
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| Another view of the saddles. Out of scrap balsa I built 4 different sanding blocks fair teh airfoil. If some ham-handed idiot wouldn't have crushed several ribs during the process, requiring replacments, I would hav been done much sooner. Now on to the strut & rigging attachment points. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 25-Jan-16 23:14 |  |
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| Spent most of the day sanding and strueing up the wings. Never done this before. My enigineering & woodworking background has proven the worth of "jigs" over the years. Here is one of teh wings supported by three saddles that allowed me to get the bottom of the leading & trailing edges truly flat and also make sure that the undercamber of the airfoil was consistent. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 22-Jan-16 19:29 |  |
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| Anothee view. Span is 40 inches (+ asmidge). |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 22-Jan-16 19:25 |  |
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| Top wing done. The plans that I am working off of did not have ailerons, so had to extrapolate/interpolate/WAG them; think that I'm pretty close. The wing center section/dihederal brace took most of the day (when I wasn't shoveling snow). |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 20-Jan-16 11:55 |  |
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| Nearly 200 individual parts here, Took a day and a half to git R done. The little pile in front are the puchings from the alignment tool. I think the next model will be Laser-cut. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 18-Jan-16 23:15 |  |
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| There are about 15 rib blanks clamped in the patterns. The red edge, applied with a sharpy, is a warning stripe to let me know if I have gone to far. I roughed the shape out with my drum sander then used a fairing board to refine the ribs. The notches were roughed out with a razor saw then refined with a small bastard file. |
