Some pictures from this Sunday's outing with Tiger Moth

Started by flyingboxcar, February 23, 2011, 12:27:03 AM

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gauravag

Aah ! as good as it can get   . Excellent pictures and wonderful plane !

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sanjayrai55

Only just saw this. Superb, Captain :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

A few small questions:

The front part of the main LG - does it slot into holes on the fuse?
The upper wing - how is it held down? Just the struts and the rigging?

Thanks

flyingboxcar

Sanjay
The Red one or the Green one are you inquiring about?
For the red one, the horizontal part of the main oleo legs are captured in a slot that is built on the underside of the lower wing center section bottom. The wings are retained by rubber bands and the bands also retain the wire legs. The front struts have small brass tubes over the wire. These tubes are sewn on the ply firewall. Thus the whole assembly swings out towards the nose when required with the brass tubes acting as hinge for the front struts.
For the green one similar arrangement for the front struts but the main oleo is captured on the bottom of center section with plastic clamps that are bolted on with 2-56 bolts and blind nuts. In order to remove the lower wing one has to remove the wing bolts and also the bolts holding the undercarriage clamps and the U/c swings out.

For the upper wing on the red one is held on with rubber bands that fix on to the piano wire that extend from the cabane. The outboard interplane struts and rigging is non functional.
In the green one, the upper wing is retained by a tongue in front and two 3mm bolts on the rear that engage with matching blind nuts fixed to the ply plate on top of the cabane and forming the bottom part of the center section tank.
Hope that helps
 
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sanjayrai55

Thank yo so much Captain

I am planning to make the (red) Whitehead Tiger from Corro, and in Electric.Your clarifications have really been a great help.

In case I do go ahead, I will probably ask you for more  ;D