The second video in the series on the build of a Jerry Bates De Haviland Chipmunk. This episode showing the start of the project. I keep saying short video, lol it is not......
Hello from the Missouri Ozarks!! Danny I am so glad I found this channel. I am also a retired Engineer ( it's a curse ) I am also Irish and Scot so I am triple cursed. LOL! I am an old scratch builder and large scale model airplane designer myself. Walked away from the hobby about 24 yrs ago saying I would never go back but here I am back into it (Turned the hobby into a business, a bad move). I am currently restoring an old 1/4 Scale Clipped Wing Cub I built from the old Sig Kit back in the 1980s, still has the original Coverite on it and a Saito 182 Twin. Man I used to fly the tail off of that plane!! I am also scratch building a 30% Staudacher S300 from my own plans. I did it your way . . . traveled to upper Michigan to John Staudachers shop and spent a week doing my own set of 5 view drawings. This was back in 1994 or so. My original plans used a hot wire cut foam wing which I am using on this one (I saved a set of wing cores for myself , glad I kept them) but I have done up a set of plans that use a built up balsa wing with CF tubes and sleeves. I also saved all my Cowl molds and plugs. I am enjoying watching and learning the way you do things. Keep up the great content!!
see this really explains why building planes takes so long when doing scale cause even if ya have a “kit” don’t mean it’s right for 3 view or how you want it to work
Deviating from the plans is always fraught with danger. I have spent the last two hours trying to figure out where to put the servos so that they don't intrude into the cockpit, all good fun mind you!
So do I, but really only for ailerons and flaps, elevators and rudder, pushrods are easier. This has the hinge-line below the wing so RDS will not work......
