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Dan's 120" B-26 Douglas Invader - Page 4
| November 15, 2005 The wing will eventually be in three parts. There will be a center section which has a dihedral built into it. This will be attached to the fuselage permanently. The center section will also have the engine nacelles attached. On the outboard side of the nacelle, the outer section of each wing will be removable. The outer wing panels will each join / align using an aluminum wing tube and dowel. See the picture below.  To keep the outer panel from sliding off the wing tube, there are two bolts that pass through the top side of the outer wing at a 45 degree angle and connect to the center section. The picture below shows the inside of the outer wing where the bolt passes through a copper tube for alignment.  The next picture shows the blind nut on inside of the center section.  Merlyn Graves is the person who uses this technique and I thought that I would give it a try. There are other ways to attach the wing sections. This one is pretty neat but it does leave a few holes in the wing. I may conceal the holes later. November 22, 2005 Just came in from the garage! Kinda wild that this will expand to 5 feet.  This time it seems to be going faster.   Note to self: Do not hold pencil with lips while working with CA. December 13, 2005 I did get a minor mystery resolved. When I looked through my father's orders, I notice that he trained with a "crew" and that crew shipped out to Korea together. But when he got to Korea, the navigator was a different person. I mentioned this to my mother and she said that the original navigator was so bothered about going to fight that he refused to fly. I don't know what happened to him other than he was shipped back to the states.  So this is my father on the right and William Gifford the gunner on the left. Mom thought it was funny that they ate dinner in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before shipping out to Asia. January 19, 2006 Today, I tried a new (for me) search engine to look for photos of the A-26. alltheweb.com It sort of looks like Google. Anyway, I hit paydirt! I found two photos of Midnight Rendezous taken in 1951. My dad flew this plane in 1952. I was like really excited.   Looks like they repainted the nose art. February 17, 2006 Sent my Tx in for some repair work. Of course, during the three weeks it was gone, the weather was fantastic. The day it came back, snow . Go figure! re: those pesky landing lights. I measured the plans and came up with location and size.  Guess what, its about this size -  Yep, it's half a ping pong ball. So-  Gotta tell you though that I am not too happy with the reflector. This was not my first choice. I found a smooth surfaced one that looked more "real" so to speak. But only one. I went ahead and started putting it together though thinking that I could find another flashlight that matched. This is where the Tx story comes in. Since I did not have the Tx, I decided to power the light up direct to the battery to see how it looked. After the melt down and ensuing fire, I put things on hold for awhile. Either I broke a wire where it attaches to the lamp, or the ElectroDynamics Sending unit reduces the voltage. Probably the later. I never did find another flashlight with a smooth looking reflector, but I think this turned out OK for my purposes. I cut plywood rings to hold the lens and had to modify the light (shorten it) to make it fit inside. The hinge will be in the hardwood arm that comes out of it and the black thing is a cut up servo arm. There is a little tiny wood ring that the light sits in that mounts to the bottom of the reflector. And best of all, it does not get hot! I kinda had fun playing with this; something different than cutting wood and sanding. But, while waiting for the replacement light, I guess I better get back on the wing. One more picture, for the road!  Page 4 Next Page |
