Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Quest AS-1 Escort Build Part 15 Strake? What Strake?

Step 20
You are directed to glue the Strake on the center line of the nose tube. There is no Strake piece on the laser cut balsa sheet!
I did my best to cut one out using the cover art picture.
The back edge of the piece was cut to a 45 degree angle to match the angle of the mitred nose tube.

It did take some extensive filling to get the wing root edge gap smooth. I ended up using some epoxy then CWF to get the job done. You can see the launch lug in place from Step 19.

Note I hadn't glued the (launch lug) wing tip tubes in place yet.
This wasn't any special plan, I just forgot to glue them on before priming. This oversight led to more fillet work later on.

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