What do you think, is 15 months long enough to go without an update? Yeah, I think so too. Let's get right into the meat of it then. Now where did I leave off... -Rummages through old posts. Sounds of scrap tubing bouncing off the floor accompany muffled curses- AHA! Found it. We were waiting to finish weld the fuselage. I had a good review from my Tech councilor in April of 2021 and started in on finish-welding the fuselage. I started at the tailpost and worked forward, spiraling around the fuselage as I welded each tubing cluster. I made up a rotisserie of sorts to allow me to turn the fuselage for better access to all sides of each weld. The rotisserie consisted of two 2x4 stands with a hole drilled in an end. This hole accepted a piece of tubing on which the fuselage could rotate. This is probably one of those "a picture is worth 1000 words" deals, so here ya go. The front pivot is just some gas pipe bolted to a plywood plate. The plywood is held on the fusela
Constructing the Corben Junior ACE.