Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F - Part 3

Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 3

Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 3 As I promised last time, during this session in the shop I’ll begin the actual assembly of the wing and you’ll get to see how the modifications for flaps (openings in the original structural design) that began as some newly cut-out places in several ribs […]

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Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F - Part 2

Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 2

Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 2 Last time I finished “picking up where I left off” on this airplane ten years ago, dusting off the partially-built vertical and horizontal tail surfaces, and bringing the vertical tail and rudder up to the stage at which they are ready to be assembled to […]

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Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F - Part 1

Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 1

Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 1 For almost as long as there have been model airplane builders there has been the B-17. The first of them appeared in the late 1930’s. We aeromodelers as a group were around in significant numbers for only a decade or so before that. When the […]

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