After seeing Andy Aitken Genesis do it`s test flights at the hand of Dave Johnson it was time for the second of the Committees Test kits in the fleet to be built, at the committee meeting at Gaydon Mike Eccles and Myself were asked if we would undertake the building of the other two kits the LMA had.
so on to the build, on arriving home at 9.30pm i unloaded the box from the van and into the living room ( nortern saying lounge to all the posh people). On opening the box you are confronted by a large one piece plan, i decided to build the fuzz first so gathered all the lazer cut sections from the box that were required.
As a kit goes the fuzz went together very quickly all parts fitting together nice and tight, so you can built the whole fuzz with out having to use a building board to jig it, as you can see from the pic i built it on the coffee table (good job her indoors was away in blackpool for the weekend).
After doing the test fit of all the fuzz parts it was time to glue it altogether this took me from start to finish about an hour using epoxy on the bulk head and undercarrige section and thin cyno on all other parts, as this was one of the early kit there were some wood parts to buy to finish off the fuzz, these were the 1/4 by 3/8 balsa stringers for use on the back section of the cockpit to the tail and the 1/64 liteply to cover the said section.
I found the fuzz very easy to build and straight forward with no complication (anyone who can read a plan without instruction should find it a doddle to put together).
So on to the wing section (report to follow when i`ve built them).
are you changing the structure at all to take the 62? i was planning on a bit of triangulation here and there at the front end. one of the thing i still need to do to my engine is get a new mount that stands the engine further off the firewall so that i can keep the carb bend on it.