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Ernest,
Looking good !! Been machining my 13B front housing for Mistral backplate ......
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Kelly Troyer
Dyke Delta/13B/RD1C/EC2
-------------- Original message from Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>: --------------
> Ed told me at the Mid-Atlantic flyin that I wasn't sending enough
> pictures to the group. So as not to be reticent in my duties 8*), this
> is what I've been up to. The belly is covered in fabric, and the
> fiberglass front "breastplate" will support the landing lights and the
> intakes for the oil and half the water cooling. The top of the wheel
> wells will be the bottom section of the exit duct.
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> I've got a long weekend to finish the breastplate and get the fuselage
> turned back over. The middle section of the cooling duct will be
> constructed of fabric stretched over support members. That should go
> quickly (glue fabric, stretch, shrink with iron to 300 degree, add just
> one coat of PolyBrush f
or seal and fire retardant). Then I'll make a
> fiberglass mating section to smoothly join the rear of the oil cooler
> to the front of the fabric portion of the duct. Then there will be
> another fiberglass section to take the air from the rear of the fabric
> section and dump it as smoothly as possible back into the freestream
> through a set of gills.
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> ,|"|"|, Ernest Christley |
> ----===<{{(oQo)}}>===---- Dyke Delta Builder |
> o| d |o www.ernest.isa-geek.org |
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