Starting to look like a plane
Look look !!!!
Today I spend 7 hours fitting the bracing tubes, see below. I slowly worked my way through the bits for this. Went really well, and really happy with it 🙂
Slowly this box of tubes is starting to look like a plane!
A real plane, wow !! 🙂
Below the tang for the diagonal brace that supports the weight of the plane "going into the wheels".
Also below, the dark grey round 2" tube , part of the suspension of the wheels.
Above, the bracing fixed into the bottom longeron, and below the tong for bracing the lift structure.
Ready to mount the bracket that connects the bottom horizontal tube, completing the "landing gear frame".
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