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I attached the transom, locking the keel between two of my speed squares to keep it perpendicular ro the transom board. It is square. Whew. I've been fitting and disassembling the keel and frames and see one potential oops. One of the aft frames, #5, seems a little off line with he rest of the frames as thy all sit in their keel slots, unglued. It looks off on the port side, but OK on the starboard. I think I'm OK, but thought I'd ask before the glue up.
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EG, here's a review of the Kraken parts on the Steel Navy site: http://www.steelnavy.net/KrakenDesDiv22FBustelo350.html They'll be a nice addition to the kit.
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The brass would bark at us if we lingered below 5K feet in SVN. That was only an issue if you dawdled around at 300 Knots. For us, the faster the better and get as low as you felt capable. Later on, we worked some exercises at 100 feet, but "we were smokin", as we'd like to say, doing 450 to 500 Kts. It's a thrill and a half, flying formation thru some canyons in northern Utah or central Pennsylvania, doing those kinds of speeds. Having all that sheet metal wrapped around you made you feel invincible. Hanging out the back end of a 'Hook or a Herky on a thether, no way, Jose.
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Weight on wheels switches are fairly common. Helps keep landing gear down, primarily for takeoffs. Some fighter guys liked to flip the gear switch up as they started rolling and you could get the gear up faster. Of course, if you had a problem at rotation and wanted to stay on the runway (assuming there was enough in front of your to allow stopping) , you could be sraping along on tanks and partial gear. Hard to stand up to the Boss and explain that.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Quite the machine. I'm in also; pulling us a stack of tires. No rafter hanging for me. -
Maybe they'll serve us a venison stew? Had a great one in a tiny gasthaus on the German/Luxembourg border. The facility was rather modern, but the food was traditional. My Dad had pictures of Bitburg when he was there in 1945. All the stuff I saw in town 28 years later was about my age or newer at that time.
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After completing installation of the keel bolts and reapplying some WOP, I came back some hours later to test fit the keel to the frames. Got a little too hurried in dis-assembling the keel on the stern section and cracked off a wee piece from the last notch of the keel. It was a clean break and I glued it back with a dot of carpenter's glue. So much for getting the keel and frames glued up today. 😞
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I'd bet there was a lockout of some kind to prevent tilting the nacelles from the vertical position, on the ground. As long as they've been around, I've never read about that happening. The issues with landing in dust-storms, induced by the aircraft, were a n early problem, but they have some kind of blind landing system to assist them.
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As always, an interesting build, Denis. Nice job, fixing the faux pas. Italeri may have been doing the interior marks for the AF version, but never did release a modified kit. There would be a lot of drilling of good sized holes to add them to this one, too. Probably entailed some significant mods to the molds or making new molds, either of which costs Euros.
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