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Re: Sopwith Camel: Model Team by any other name...
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Fri, 18 May 2001 19:09:33 GMT
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Assembled my Camel after grotesque seven hour Guinness session. Awoke this
morning to find, to my suprise, it was recognisably an olde worlde biplane.

1. slack rigging is annoying

2. um, 7-8 bits left over?!

3. agree with Huw that it was *madness* to attach stumpy bits of the lower
wing to the cockpit section so early in construction - must have fallen off
20 times?

4. (and this could be Guinness related, see also 2.) I had difficulty
attaching the struts from fusilage to upper wing, and have a definite upward
bow to the upper wing when looked at head on? Me, or the Liffey Water?



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  Re: Sopwith Camel: Model Team by any other name...
 
(...) The wings on real planes often do bow upward a bit. This makes them self correcting when inadvertantly banked. No idea (I haven't gotten my copy yet) if that is a designed in feature or just luck. (24 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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"Nathaniel Cross" <nathaniel@than.org> wrote in message news:GDJ0t7.H1x@lugnet.com... (...) The (...) I adjusted the positions of the strings at their upper ends -- I moved them both 2 studs along the 1x8 plate. That has done the job. Huw (24 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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