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CAD is basically finished now, just getting quotes from the moulding company.
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Well if that means you end up with the Pilot T.11 you probably want to re-examine your approach and get more data. That or companies like DBMK that go the extra mile, LiDAR scan, get factory drawings, assemble a panel of subject matter experts to check the CAD model at several stages and 3-D print the CAD model to compare against photographs will nail subject after subject.
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I do not disagree with any of the above. Do not start tooling until your CAD model is accurate!
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To be fair it is far more difficult to get accurate plans than is realised. There are no factory plans, typically, created of an entire airframe - the plans drawn are part by part. General Arrangement drawings are often wrong - the Griffon Spitfire GAs, for example, have the thrust line a few degrees too high and the tail shape slightly out. LIDAR scanning is the best way currently to capture the shape but it is not a magic bullet (and not cheap either) - you need to constantly cross check different airframes, factory part drawings and photographs and even then there will be design compromises so that you can mold it. I have heard that a T11 is being scanned at a UK museum next week. Will
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P-51B Berlin Express - Is it still at Duxford?
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Hi Visiting Duxford next week and was wondering if the P-51B Berlin Express was still there? Any help would be much appreciated! Will
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Do we want the capability/kit or do we want a UK industry support programme? Given the size of the likely buy it really should be the former. Ironically this is exactly what it should be. 80% of the cost will be on the 20% military capability that will then never get used.
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Hornby Group (airfix's owners) half-yearly results
Scimitar F1 replied to Phil Gollin's topic in Current News
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I always remember being introduced by my RSWO as Oberleutnant to the German camp commander - sounded much better. Otherwise agree with all these comments but you have to start somewhere!
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Does anyone know how many XIVs were made with C wings as opposed to E wings? I am particularly interested in high back XIVe’s. Will
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I am sticking with Hasegawa!
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The Scimitar is coming along. We have had to change designer which has slowed things up. It is next after the F11F The Sea Fury is in tooling with first test shots scheduled for May.
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Hasegawa really works for me. We scanned an F-4 at Pima and once you see you cannot unsee the canopy.
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