As a supporting part of the Typhoon project, the Merlin is really beginning to take up space! I've been slowly picking away at building up the trailer to mount the running Merlin on, and now it's time to get things buttoned up. In this episode I show you some of the progress that has been made to date.
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Episode 15 Hawker Typhoon- Fitting Fu...
In this episode, I run through the procedure for trimming, fitting and finishing the fuselage frame segments, getting them ready for the production and installation of splice plates.
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S01E16 Hawker Typhoon Rebuild - Monoc...
This episode details the work I've been doing to build a tooling system to produce the small, complicated splice plates used to join the frame segments in the Hawker Typhoon forward monocoque section. With the tooling done and proven, I'm able to take you through the production of one plate from ...
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Episode 17 Part 1 Hawker Typhoon Fin ...
In this episode I give a description of the Hawker Typhoon fin structure, and follow along with the process I use to lay out, cut and shape the form blocks that i need to build for individual rib construction.
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