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yorcram Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 12^th, 2015 Posts: 279 Reputation: 0 Sackville,NS Gender: Awards: 1 Mood:	Curtis Hawk 75 Jul 31^st, 2015 at 4:26pm The poor weather the past few week prompted me to start my 'winter' build early. I wanted sonething a little different but a kit build so I settled on the Hawk 75 / p36. I picked up the top flight p40, ordered decals from Callie. Retracts and dle20 should be here soon. I chose the scheme from the cover of one of my books. Should be easy to see.
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Online Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Curtis Hawk 75 Reply #1 - Jul 31^st, 2015 at 10:07pm That will be a neat kit bash Marc...looking forward to it..
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yorcram Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 12^th, 2015 Posts: 279 Reputation: 0 Sackville,NS Gender: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: Curtis Hawk 75 Reply #3 - Aug 20^th, 2015 at 5:59pm Before packing up my shop for the shop 2.0 upgrade 😃 I did get the tail framed and lightened. Carved out the fuse formers as well. Currently the project is in mothballs untill the TV room and shop are completed.
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Re: Curtis Hawk 75
Reply #5 - Nov 8^th, 2015 at 1:13pm

Building season is here so I started back on this project.
I sheeted the top of the wing. I read that there were some issues with tip stalling so I ensured there was 2° of washout at the tips.

I cut the front fuselage formers to where i wanted the firewall to be and made a new firewall . I built up the sides for the start of the transition to the radial cowl.

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yorcram Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 12^th, 2015 Posts: 279 Reputation: 0 Sackville,NS Gender: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: Curtis Hawk 75 Reply #8 - Nov 11^th, 2015 at 7:46pm Starting to look like a plane now. Basically stock kit build at this point. Haven't decided on how i am doing the nose. Thinking of two piece cowl for easy access to the engine, but single piece would be easier. Leaving this decision until later.
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yorcram Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 12^th, 2015 Posts: 279 Reputation: 0 Sackville,NS Gender: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: Curtis Hawk 75 Reply #10 - Nov 17^th, 2015 at 6:45pm Finished sheeting the fuse and made the wing fillets. Rough sanded the cowl. Went with the two piece for engine access. Time for the boring stuff. Cutting hatches, installing hinges and controls, setup the retracts. .
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Re: Curtis Hawk 75
Reply #17 - Nov 20^th, 2015 at 6:03pm

Discovered that I was out of glass cloth and fabric, so placed an order for some. Now to putter around until it gets here.

Started on the retracts. The new e-flite 95° 60-120 retract footprint is a little longer than the air retracts they were designed for. I moved the retract mount position forward and cut a relief hole for the endplate wires into the spare shear web. Moving forward will help with nose over's and the end caps still fit over the units.
I added some cross grain balsa to beef up the wheel well edges so they can take some ware n tear.

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