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Aircraft |
Category |
Date |
Preview |
| John M Oshust | Guillows Series 1000 - SBD3 Dauntless | Build | 18-Feb-10 09:10 |  |
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| While not a tail assembly by Douglas or Guillows, this one is better....its a "poppy!" I could not go with the guillows and the construction at this point prevented a Douglas, carful study of poppy's build thread illuminated the path. Poppy, I hope you had as much "fun" figurung out this stage of the build as I did!!! |
| John M Oshust | Guillows Series 1000 - SBD3 Dauntless | Build | 17-Feb-10 13:00 |  |
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| LW...As per your request. Here is the whole ball of wax as of this evening. |
| John M Oshust | Guillows Series 1000 - SBD3 Dauntless | Build | 17-Feb-10 07:29 |  |
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| From poppy's Dauntless build I noticed the hoist cable in the pit. Now I know why it is there. Factoid... The SBD,primarily a carrier base plane, did not have folding wings. It barely fit, diagonally on the flight deck elevator. To save space on the hanger deck, SBDs were suspended from the ceiling on the hanger deck. My reference books show them suspended. The hoist cable is also shown lifting them from the dock to the flight deck |
| John M Oshust | Guillows Series 1000 - SBD3 Dauntless | Build | 17-Feb-10 07:23 |  |
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| Further feather progress. |
| John M Oshust | Guillows Series 1000 - SBD3 Dauntless | Build | 16-Feb-10 13:32 |  |
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| Started work on the feathers. |
| John M Oshust | Guillows Series 1000 - SBD3 Dauntless | Reference | 14-Feb-10 18:02 |  |
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| Toys for the shop.. The mini chop/miter saw should save some time and inprove production quality. |
