ccheese
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Just found this thread, Gary. It's coming along nicely.
Charles
Charles
Geedee's P-51D Cockpit Project
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Looks good Gary, looking forward to the final product.
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Hey, thanks guys. enjoying mucking about and getting something thats beginning to look like a 'Plane.
Welllll. actually, what I'm hoping is, that once its up and running properly with everything connected and wired to work...allbeit on a PC... I'm hoping that it'll be used as a procedures trainer !. At least thats how I will be advertising it, in the vain hope that some-one somewhere will see the benefit of using such a beastie prior to letting a tyro loose in their real pride and joy. Aaaaaaand, if I happen to get the odd trip in an airworthy 'Stang from my potential 'sponsors' then I'll be over the moon !. Probably never happen, but hey, I live in hope.
Welllll. actually, what I'm hoping is, that once its up and running properly with everything connected and wired to work...allbeit on a PC... I'm hoping that it'll be used as a procedures trainer !. At least thats how I will be advertising it, in the vain hope that some-one somewhere will see the benefit of using such a beastie prior to letting a tyro loose in their real pride and joy. Aaaaaaand, if I happen to get the odd trip in an airworthy 'Stang from my potential 'sponsors' then I'll be over the moon !. Probably never happen, but hey, I live in hope.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Sounds like a good plan to me Gary. I hope you get a 'customer' mate.
Tony Hill
Tech Sergeant
A man needs a plan...
Good to see another full sized beastie progressing so fast.
Darryl
Good to see another full sized beastie progressing so fast.
Darryl
Great work Gary!
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Time for another quick update. Actually got some more work this past week and things are progressing but not as fast as I want them to !.
As you'll see, I've marked out the overall floorpan but here I am not going to follow the plans implicitly. The floor 'boarding' on the cockpit floor of the 'Stang is in a number of sections but as I am not building anything below the floor, I have decided for structural strength to do the whole lot out of one single peice of Ply. I will be marking out the seperate floor sections and then carefully cutting down through two layers of the ply, to give the impression that they are all individual bits...but they wont be!. I will be hopefully this weekend building a 'box'...if I can get the wood I need !... floorto place the cockpit floor on as this will not only giver added strength, allow for the cut-out, but will also allow me to mount some castor wheels to make the whole shooting match moveable !.
I'm just about done with firewall and am quite pleased with the way its turned out...apart from all those bleedin' bolts, what a pain !
Anyway, thats about it now as I'm away next week and will only have a few short days before Cockpitfest to carry on with the build so the next lot of shots will be from that event (and yes, Rocketeer (Tony) and I will do a write up about the weekend to let you guys 'n' gals see what we get up to !
As you'll see, I've marked out the overall floorpan but here I am not going to follow the plans implicitly. The floor 'boarding' on the cockpit floor of the 'Stang is in a number of sections but as I am not building anything below the floor, I have decided for structural strength to do the whole lot out of one single peice of Ply. I will be marking out the seperate floor sections and then carefully cutting down through two layers of the ply, to give the impression that they are all individual bits...but they wont be!. I will be hopefully this weekend building a 'box'...if I can get the wood I need !... floorto place the cockpit floor on as this will not only giver added strength, allow for the cut-out, but will also allow me to mount some castor wheels to make the whole shooting match moveable !.
I'm just about done with firewall and am quite pleased with the way its turned out...apart from all those bleedin' bolts, what a pain !
Anyway, thats about it now as I'm away next week and will only have a few short days before Cockpitfest to carry on with the build so the next lot of shots will be from that event (and yes, Rocketeer (Tony) and I will do a write up about the weekend to let you guys 'n' gals see what we get up to !
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Fantastic work Gary!...Well done so far mate..
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Benevolens Magister
Great work Gary, looks very neat and tidy.
evangilder
"Shooter"
Nice work, Gary. Taking your time and doing it right is paying off. It looks great! 
ToughOmbre
Senior Master Sergeant
Looking good Gary! Nice work!
TO
TO
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
Top notch work mate! Have fun at Cockpitfest!
Have fun at Cockpitfest!
Coming along nicely Gary.
Oh Yea....I'd like to be there when you crawl in on your hands and knees and ask!...
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Oh Yea....I'd like to be there when you crawl in on your hands and knees and ask!...
Begging and groveling.
Gary, it looks incredible. Keep up the excellent work!
Tony Hill
Tech Sergeant
Brilliant stuff mate!!
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Outstanding work, Gary...what a great project!
Ok, when you get done there, wanna build me a Fw190A-8 cockpit?
Ok, when you get done there, wanna build me a Fw190A-8 cockpit?
