New Flight: Pitts -Skelton Aerobatic model (page 9)

I keep shaping the cowl ...

Beautiful!

Betty's Little Stinker had just the windscreen.  This is a photo of a painting of her and both Little Stinkers taken at the Wright Brothers Museum in Kittyhawk, NC.  Worth the admission if you ever get there.  The length of the Brothers first flight is amazingly short for the the magnitude of it's importance.

Tee Bee wrote:Beautiful!

Thank you!!!

Thank you!!! Dave for that information ... I will also start reading about Betty, I like the general history of everything that has to do with aviation. Thanks for the valuable contribution.
I would like to know some place in the USA, it is a country that I admire, so maybe sometimes I know about the possibility of traveling .... thanks for the advice.

Mauricio, you continue to amaze, friend. You are making art with your lathe. Your cabane struts are really cool. Those axles are really nice too. I have to get one of those.

Mauricio. I have to say that your model building skills are absolutely beautiful. It looks great, and am watching carefully.

I have placed the rods on the floor of the fuselage.
Friends, I cannot transmit in photos the personal beauty of this model, I am really in love and enjoying every step of this construction ... I really like it and very much!









I also want to share this video of Mr. Sean Tucker .... I watch and watch this video and feel admiration all the time.
The maneuvers and the sound of the motor and propeller are incredible, I just hope you enjoy it like I do:

WoW The plane is coming along really Nicely Is this engine to bee upright ? i don't understand the triangle cut out where i think the glow head will be / sorry if i am beeing stupid /with questions . And this Sean is one amazing aerobatic flier , I Did enjoy very much , Thanks Friend !

Dave, NEW222...thank you very much for your kind words, friends!

thank you very much Erick! .... Yes !, Mr. Sean is from another planet !!
Here I leave a photo for you to interpret better.
If you don't understand something you tell me, I'll gladly explain it to you.
Nothing is stupid, I like to be given the chance to explain my ideas. Thanks to your friend for joining me on this project!

OK Thanks , i guess this piece will Bee removed to start and Fly .

Yes Erick, then I will make the necessary cut to access the engine.

Okay, I said NO, but I really like this model as it evolves, so I made a matrix to make a prototype wheel cover, I have painted it red just to see what it looks like...
I really like how it looks, and I will try to use them in the club, although for the grass, they will be a problem ... but I will see that in due course.

Very good job with these wheel spats

Thanks Levent

Well, after evaluating how these shoes look, then I made a new pair and left them "crystal", that is, transparent since I don't know how I'm going to decorate the model yet, so painting them will come later.






I worked in the cabin laying floor and presented a 1 / 2A pilot to see how it looks, I really like it ... this gets good! ...








Remove the "belly" of the fuselage taking care to weld the rods to a piece of raft in order to maintain the original position, there the lower wing will be housed there and these rods may have to be placed in the structure of the wing to continue the fuselage line.




Put the upper wing supports to check that the fit is correct, and everything seems to be perfectly in place, perhaps a minimal adjustment, but for now everything is fine.





Well, this is how the pillars and the fuselage line look in general, everything seems to be in order!

Looking Fantastic !! I like the wheel pants also and you did a good jog of making them . A lot of calculating when making a model from scratch / make a part /mount / remove /adjust if needed/.... I think she is going to bee a Looker for sure .

Thanks Erick for your words !! ... It would be nice that once finished we could fly it together !! ... Of course!

Okay, take a few hours and I have finally shaped the uprights of the upper wing.
You can turn the uprights one by one to the left or right as you need to correct the incidence and you will get exactly the incidence of the upper wing you want.
You can vary the trailing edge, or you can vary the leading edge or both depending on how useful it is to apply.
The result is much better than I expected, it really works.
I have zeroed out the top wing using this test template.
Also heat-shrink each stud for a better look, which I will later replace with the final one.
I will continue in process ....

I simply admire your build precision Mauricio.. not one alignment missed..only beautiful parallel control surfaces...no glue smeared around the joints...I wish I had it all..

Thank you András, I am glad you like how this work is being carried out, I am also happy with the result and I am taking the necessary time since I really enjoy the assembly process ... Time to resume it ... and here more progress...

I place a 3mm x 1mm carbon strip on the rudder (fixed part), this is to ensure that there are no ripples, by the way it is completely rigid:



These woods that I place there are to generate an equal surface between the rods and the exit hole of the control. This is necessary because when covering with material, there should be no depression in that sector:






Okay, so I'm going to remove the Cowl from the engine, so that everything is really practical to mount and operate ... the photos show the process:




I need to make a tool to sand and undercut the inside of the Cowl, so here I made this tool for the hand lathe or "Dremel":




Interior sanding process, works perfect!:



Silkspan and dope paper, to give strength and seal at a very low weight as well!:



Adjustments to the air intakes and motor plate outlet:



I build a "false F1" in 1.5 mm thickness, the purpose is to compensate the wood that has been removed by the saw when cutting the Cowl and also generate anchors for dowels that will support the Cowl later screwed:






Then I make the necessary adjustments for the motor housing and its muffler: