Reactor biplane project

[MacMike]

Great mod man!

[JRgraham]

More on completing the canopy mod. I use 1/4 foam board to create templates.

[JRgraham]

Finished the end caps to the canopy, and glue in place using the original gorilla glue. The expanding foam helps fill imperfections. (not that there are any!)

[JRgraham]

Next, since the typical design had the inner fuse plates setup to access from the bottom, and I am going to be accessing through the canopy hatch, I need to relocate them.

[JRgraham]

Two more plates made up to cap the fuselage side.

[JRgraham]

And finishing it up. I will come back and add a couple dowels in the front, and either a spring quick release latch in the rear, or some sort of ply plate with a bolt.. not quite sure just yet.

[JRgraham]

I need to reposition the servo's in the tail (again), I dont like servo's just mounted back there having them completely exposed to the elements.. Instead, I will relocate them inside, having just the arms sticking out.
To do this, I have to fill in a couple factory holes, and add in some plates for the servo's to mount to inside.

[JRgraham]

Back to the canopy again, I needed to support the canopy frame a bit more. I ripped some balsa down to a square stock rails, and glued in place.
I also ended up needing to splice in a little piece to the front cap to even it out. Not sure how I did that.. but its even now

[JRgraham]

And finally, some final finish sanding to get everything to fit as perfect as possible. All thats left is the dowels and latch release

[JRgraham]

By the way, posting images now is soooo much smoother now, on this new web hosting server! No lagging or timing out, fast and quick uploads. what a difference from the other host. So glad we made the decision to pull out of GoDaddy.

I am going to try hard to get this plane finished up by time I get my parts for the Pilot Yak 54 rebuild.