vh-bob Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 A lovely build of one of my favourite aircraft. I don't want to be a rivet counter but you missed one small but very necessary item , the spar mod that spans the underside of the centre section and just projects outboard of each nacelle. It consists of two steel straps clamped above and below the main spar and is covered by a rather ugly sheet metal fairing The purpose is to enable the pilot to get on the ground should the spar fail in flight. All flying D18Ss have this fitted and can be seen on many of the pics on Airliners.com. Your work has inspired me to have a go at a civil beech but I'm not brave enough to use the Rareplanes kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 8 hours ago, vh-bob said: A lovely build of one of my favourite aircraft. I don't want to be a rivet counter but you missed one small but very necessary item , the spar mod that spans the underside of the centre section and just projects outboard of each nacelle. It consists of two steel straps clamped above and below the main spar and is covered by a rather ugly sheet metal fairing The purpose is to enable the pilot to get on the ground should the spar fail in flight. All flying D18Ss have this fitted and can be seen on many of the pics on Airliners.com. Your work has inspired me to have a go at a civil beech but I'm not brave enough to use the Rareplanes kit. Far from me to be the rivet counter of your not wanting to be a rivet counter, but the "ugly sheet metal faring" spar mod, is just one of the ways spars are reinforced. Others have reinforcement straps, flatter and showing no such prominence. Below are some links to shots of the original plane I modeled flying, where it can be seen that in this case the spar reinforcement is of other nature, much less conspicuous (most likely the above-mentioned straps). Here a photo taken from a webpage (of spar repairs, of all things) The page is here: http://www.twinbeech.com/sparstrap.htm (there you will find confirmation of what I have said, in case it's needed): http://www.twinbeech.com/images/sparstrap/KeithsUC-45E.jpg (Links to Airliners Net) https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/4/4/1796442.jpg?v=v40 https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/2/2/1759227.jpg?v=v40 https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/7/4/1523472.jpg?v=v40 https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/9/0/2343092.jpg?v=v40 And another to a photo with a very conspicuous one you seem to believe was universally applied (it wasn't) From the same webpage of the link above: http://www.twinbeech.com/images/sparstrap/dsc07729.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Ranger Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 15 hours ago, Moa said: I would keep them coming faster, but I have to build them first! The bane of every modeler. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vh-bob Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Moa, thanks for the information, the photos were interesting. It just shows you can never do enough research. Trev. (vh-bo b) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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