1/3-Scale Cessna 185 ~ by Gunny Bumburs at Aviation Concepts

[gunny11]

!/4" thick balsa protective strips are provided to keep the vortex generators safe from transportation etc.

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And that's it for now folks.

[JimD]

Amazing...simply amazing!!!

Beautiful work there Gunny, you are a scale master class fabricator and builder!

[MarnochS]

Two Thumbs Up.....

[lenb]

Sometimes I want to just find something wrong with your setup just to be right once in a while. But its impossible. Really nice execution Gunny. The transportation strips are a home run.
Bravo

[gunny11]

LOL, Thanks Len! Too bad I didn't think of the transportation cover before I cut the first wing bags' T.E. open...

[stevekremer]

Wow Gunny! You just keep impressing me. Looks great!

[gunny11]

Wow! Thanks for the compliments guys.

[gunny11]

Finished developing a set of stall fences for the Cessna 185. They are CNC cut from 1/6" thick G-10 and are locked into position in the wing skin with 1/4" square magnets and a 1/16" dia. pin.

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Template taped into position and sheeting cut to rib.

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First magnet is glued in then second magnet is dropped in.

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Stall fence is centered and glued on.

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Tape is removed and cleaned off from stall fence.

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Then the pin and receiver tube is installed.

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And add little covering material patches.

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Filler. primer, paint and done.

[horsefeetky]

wow now it can become a glider not a tow plane...

[gunny11]

LOL, 6 passenger glider!

[gunny11]

So, Got into Cessna 185 mood again and decided to draw up the spacing of the control surface corrugations.
Then I was contemplating of using scale "plastruct" abs angles glued onto the covering, masking and painting them,,,, Ah, no! So I decided to go with a faster and simpler method of simulating them by ironing on 3/16" wide strips of covering material. The orange ultracote is opaque and I would like to see the crease line down the middle (sorta like a 3D effect) and I simply used a fine point marker using a 1" wide spacer to mark all the lines. Having a laser cutter, I cut a bunch of the covering material strips. I used the small trim iron and stuck them down. Another reason I went with this method was as a tow plane Im sure the tow line would have unziped a few of them off the rudder or elevators if a glider got out of wack.