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Boeing 717 - Finished


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Here's my Boeing 717 as promised....

What do I have to make it?

Fly DC-9 kit (many of them in fact.........)

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but I only need one. The one I will use has been around the world a few times as a decal and part fitting mule so it will need a good clean.

A decent set of drawings is good. These have been verified from actual dimensions

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A Contrail 717 - very heavy resin kit. Appears to be reasonably accurate but not as fine detail as Fly kit.

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Various bits and pieces from the Contrail kit and elsewhere.

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An Ozmods conversion... made for the old Airfix kit and not of much use.

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Okay, that's a start

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The 717 is one of my favorite jets.

I picked up the Pas Models 17 and it looks great although the molds are worn....there was a lot of excess resin to clean up and some parts were just unusable. Pas was good enough to offer replacements though.

Ryan

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It's amazing what you learn on this website - I'd always thought that 717 was an omission in the Boeing sequence.

The 717 is based on the Douglas DC-9, and comes after the MD-80 and MD-90 series aircraft. It was shimmied into the naming line, where, as you said, there had been an omission.

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Not so much a scrapbox build as a way of using up some of the parts I have accumulated. The parallel purpose of this thread is to get me moving on the 717 conversion I have been working on. I have acquired enough spare parts to build a 717.

I have been studying the plan above a bit more closely and I think the engines shown are BR710 rather than the BR715 used on the 717. There is a significant increase in fan diameter from 48 to 58 inches which may explain why the engines look smaller than photographs indicate.

I plan to do it as a Qantaslink aircraft and I have a set of Hawkeye decals. These were originally produced for the underscale Airfix kit but Mr Hawkeye (Peter Mahoney) has kindly scaled up a set to fit the Fly kit.

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So, the first actual step is to slice off the DC-9 tail. Simply scribe the line along the tail-fuselage joint until it comes away cleanly.

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More to come - hopefully a bit faster then the leisurely pace so far.

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The next thing to do is more cutting.......

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The tail cone has been removed as have the engine pylons. I have marked and drilled out the one third and two thirds distances on the pylon base to provide future locating pins.

The a new 'beaver-tail' tail cone is made up

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The lines are re-scribed where the seams have been filled and the tail-cone is removed on the same line it was attached by......

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I'm having a think about the engines. I can't see for the life of me what the Contrails pylons fit on to. Maybe I should read the instructions and it will all become clear.......

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...........or maybe not?

What are those instructions trying to say? Is that a T-tail A320?

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As I recall the original Boeing Model 717 became the KC-135.

That's right ,the 717 was the Boeing Model No for the USAF designated KC-135 series (C-135,RC-135 etc) . As the 717 number wasn't "used" (just became C-135 )Boeings re-designated the MD95 ( I think) the 717.

The Boeing 720 started off as the 717 -200,then 707-020 and eventually settled on the 720-020 as it was a different aeroplane to both the C-135 & 707.

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To be fair to the Contrails kit, it does have pylons on the fuselage

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Instead of the Contrail or Ozmods kit ones, which could be laboriously modified, I cast a couple from the 3D printed master for the Red Roo engine and pylon

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These should be okay as long as I run some pins from the fuselage, through the pylon, into the engine.

Someone told me airliner models were dead easy.......... huh!

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Someone told me airliner models were dead easy.......... huh!

They are Ed, when you pick a mainstream kit and build it OOB! :D

I have had 2 disastrous attempts at building a Lockheed Electra from the Hasegawa kit. I suppose it did not help that the forward resin fuselage plug I had kept 'weeping' and would not take paint...

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A bit of progress. The 717 wing-body fairing is larger than the DC-9 so I have bulked it up with some filler. More than a token gesture but not a lot more.

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The engines have been added. it was quite difficult lining up the pylon and engine together but I wanted a spar all the way through.

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The flap hinges are larger and have vortex cones on their rear ends. The kit ones were modified and I'll cast some from these masters.

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A large thank-you to Graeme H for his assistance so far. Thanks to him I might get it finished!

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